Archive September 2010

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  • US Lawmakers Cardin, McGovern Introduce Bills Creating Consequences for Russian Corruption

    30 Sep 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    US Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), and U.S. Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, introduced bills on September 29, 2010 that would freeze assets of and block visas to individuals responsible for the 2009 death of Russian anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and a related $234 million tax fraud scheme.

  • Beware Friendship with Moscow

    29 Sep 2010 | The Guardian

    British Foreign Secretary William Hague may be keen to 'reset' relations, but The Guardian believes that under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia remains a land of murky deeds.

  • Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Sacked by President Medvedev

    28 Sep 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    President Dmitry Medvedev has fired Moscow’s powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.

  • British Foreign Secretary Calls for Inquiry into Death of Sergei Magnitsky

    28 Sep 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    The UK's Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for Russia to hold a full inquiry into the death in police custody of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

  • Medvedev in China to Discuss Gas and Geopolitics

    27 Sep 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in China yesterday for talks with leaders, amid growing energy co-operation between the neighbors.