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  • Moscow City Court Allows Extension of Arrest Despite Defense Team Appeals

    2 Sep 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    "I am not pleased to seek judicial protection in Strasbourg. I want to see it in Moscow," says Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a statement to the Moscow City Court, which is hearing an appeal against the Khamovchinesky Court's decision to hold both him and Platon Lebedev in detention, in spite of changes in the Russian Criminal Code prohibiting the use of detention in cases related to entrepreneurial activity.

  • Lebedev: YUKOS Did Not Decrease Oil Prices On Purpose

    1 Sep 2010 | RIA Novosti

    Platon Lebedev, the former head of the MENATEP Financial Alliance, said in a testimony on August 30 that YUKOS did not intentionally decrease oil prices. The businessman refuted the prosecutors’ accusation of stealing 350 million tons of oil.

  • Khodorkovsky: I Had No Interest in Being an Enemy of the Kremlin or a Martyr

    9 Aug 2010 | Der Spiegel

    Over the course of several weeks, Khodorkovsky answered questions posed by Der Spiegel editors through a complicated exchange of letters, ahead of a verdict to his second trial. He discussed his transformation from a businessman into a dissident, his seven years in prison and the policies of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  • Khodorkovsky Believes in Medvedev

    16 Jul 2010 | The Financial Times Deutschland

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky praised President Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with The Financial Times Deutschland.

  • Behind Bars, Khodorkovsky Makes Bid For Freedom

    8 Jul 2010 | National Public Radio

    NPR profiles Mikhail Khodorkovsky, noting that many observers say he’s a victim and a symbol of everything wrong in Russia.