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23 Aug 2011Seven years after his initial arrest, political prisoners Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are in the closing stages of their second criminal trial in Russia.
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25 Nov 2010In this segment of Glasnost Territory Journalist Natella Boltyanskaya interviews Leonid Gozman, a co-chairman of the Just Cause party. In a discussion of the Khodorkovsky case Gozman admits the unconditional release of Khodorkovsky is a non-option for the Kremlin because upon his release he would represent such a powerful opposition political force. In the increasingly heated interview Gozman insists that the Russian state not an arbitrary institution, and that it functions on clear premises; “What we have now is an enlightened absolutism.” Using the USA as an example, Gozman presents the notion of a strong state being a product of a strong democracy, and that legitimate democracy and rule of law are the prerequisites for a strong state.
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23 Nov 2010In this video Natella Boltyanskaya interviews Khodorkovsky attorney Yuri Schmidt about the tendencies of the trial, public opinion of the trial and the potential influence of the European Court of Human Rights. Also discussed is the position of Russian leadership and Medvedev in relation to the trial. Schmidt is unoptimistic, and asserts that "Medvedev will never interfere in the case of Khodorkovsky because it is not his case."
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8 Nov 2010In an interview on The Trial in Review, Yelena Liptser, Platon Lebedev’s attorney, discusses what will happen on November 17 at the Khamovniki Court, what is happening with the YUKOS Strasbourg case, and why the courts have repeatedly denied the defense team's requests to summon the two experts used by the investigation.
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8 Nov 2010In this video Dmitriy Oreshkin comments on his predictions for the outcome of the trial and more generally about the rampant and blatant corruption in Russia’s court systems.
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8 Nov 2010In this video Vadim Klyuvgant calls Khodorkovsky’s final words in his trial “a word of truth” but laments that it is highly unlikely that he and Lebedev will be acquitted. When asked if any of the charges were legitimate, Klyuvgant responds “it was a fake from the beginning until the end, from the first to the last word.”
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8 Nov 2010This program discusses public activism in regards to the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev trial and the situation surrounding the Khimki Forest focusing on the similarities and differences between the two circumstances. They also focus on the mistakes of the current Russian government and its weakness but also significant examples of how the war on corruption and legal nihilism, proclaimed by the president and the premier, is being waged in reality.
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1 Nov 2010In this video Konstantin Rivkin speaks about the Khodorkovsky case.
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28 Oct 2010In this video Marieluise Beck speaks about the Khodorkovsky case. She asserts that as a member of the European council, Russia has a responsibility to uphold the European Convention of Human Rights.
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25 Oct 2010In this programme Matvey Ganapolskiy, journalist and presenter of Radio Echo Moskvy, discusses Yury Luzhkov's removal and what it signifies for the future of Russia with host Anna Kachkayeva of Radio Liberty.
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