Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center

From the Courtroom

Updates, summaries and documents from the courtroom of the most recent trial.

• Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Sentenced To 14 Years

  30 Dec 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Found Guilty

  27 Dec 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Courtroom Report: November 2, 2010

  03 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Courtroom Report: November 1, 2010

  02 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Closing Arguments: Platon Lebedev

  30 Oct 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Courtroom Report: October 29, 2010

  29 Oct 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  

Commentary & Opinion

Editorials and analysis about the legal proceedings against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, and related topics.

• Prokhorov: No Place for Putin in New Cabinet if I Become President

  02 Feb 2012 | RIA Novosti

  
  
• Banner facing Kremlin tells Russia's Putin to go

  02 Feb 2012 | Reuters

  
  
• Putin Concedes He May Not Win in 1st Round

  02 Feb 2012 | The New York Times

  
  
• Voodoo Putinomics

  02 Feb 2012 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Thomas Friedman: Memo to Putin and Medvedev “The Politics of Dignity”

  01 Feb 2012 | The New York Times

  
  
• Time is Running Out for Economic Reform in Russia

  01 Feb 2012 | CNN

  
  

Legal Team Statements

Releases and statements from the legal representatives of Khodorkovsky & Lebedev.

• Vadim Klyuvgant: "This is a Verdict Against the Verdict"

  22 Dec 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Khodorkovsky Will Not Seek Parole Again

  07 Nov 2011 | ITAR-TASS

  
  
• Dutch Lawmakers Vote for Sanctions in Magnitsky Case

  05 Jul 2011 | The Moscow Times

  
  
• July 2, 2011: A Doubly Sad Anniversary for Platon Lebedev

  01 Jul 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Defense Team Statement on Interpol Investigations Involving Former YUKOS Employees

  22 Jan 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Absurd Conviction To Keep Khodorkovsky In Jail Despite Prosecution's Failed Case

  27 Dec 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  

Case News and Developments

Articles about Khodorkovsky & Lebedev, their imprisonment and the legal positions.

• Kremlin Rights Council Calls for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Release

  02 Feb 2012 | RIA Novosti

  
  
• Khodorkovsky Lawyer Klyuvgant: Moscow City Court Ignored Changes in Law

  02 Feb 2012 | RAPSI

  
  
• Khodorkovsky, Lebedev Lawyers to Appeal to Supreme Court

  31 Jan 2012 | Interfax

  
  
• Navalny to Help Out YUKOS Lawyer

  20 Jan 2012 | RIA Novosti

  
  
• Reaction to Presidential Human Rights Council Findings on Khodorkovsky Trial

  21 Dec 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Global Media React to Human Rights Council Verdict

  21 Dec 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  

Multimedia

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky: An 8-Year Struggle for Justice

  23 Aug 2011 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Leonid Gozman: "What we have now is an enlightened absolutism"

  25 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Yuri Schmidt Discusses the Tendencies and Influences of the Khodorkovsky Trial

  23 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Yelena Liptser: The Prosecutors Have Failed to Provide a Single Piece of Evidence

  08 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Dmitriy Oreshkin: “There Can Be No Acquittal”

  08 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• “It Was a Fake From the Beginning Until the End, From the First to the Last Word”

  08 Nov 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  

In Their Words

Interviews, articles and statements from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

• Khodorkovsky Calls for Change in Russian Political Paradigm Without a Civil War

  03 Feb 2012 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

  
  
• Khodorkovsky: High Voter Turnout Needed To Force Election Runoff

  03 Feb 2012 | Interfax

  
  
• Khodorkovsky: “Putin Still Does Not Take the ‘New Opposition’ Seriously”

  31 Jan 2012 | The New Times

  
  
• Khodorkovsky Urges Opposition to Keep Up Pressure

  31 Jan 2012 | The Moscow Times

  
  
• Khodorkovsky's Prison's People: The Investigator

  30 Jan 2012 | The New Times

  
  
• Khodorkovsky Calls for Dialogue with Putin

  30 Jan 2012 | RIA Novosti

  
  

Global Issues

Stories illustrating the impact of the YUKOS affair on the economy, human rights and rule of law, and the energy industry.

• Russia’s Opposition Movement Spreads Beyond Moscow

  03 Feb 2012 | Voice of America

  
  
• Anti-Putin Protesters Battle Cold and Divisions

  03 Feb 2012 | Reuters

  
  
• Russian Police Accused of Intimidating Anti-Putin Rally Organizers

  03 Feb 2012 | The Guardian

  
  
• Putin Stands By State Capitalism

  31 Jan 2012 | The Financial Times

  
  
• Politics and Uncertainty Return to Moscow

  25 Jan 2012 | The Financial Times

  
  
• Magnitsky Family Attorney Forcibly Removed From Case

  25 Jan 2012 | The Moscow Times