Plea for end to Khodorkovsky ‘persecution’
A group of western politicians has urged Dmitry Medvedev, Russian president, to “end the persecution” of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Yukos oil tycoon, just days before a Moscow judge begins reading the verdict in his second trial.
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Text of letter to President Medvedev
His Excellency Dmitry Medvedev
President of the Russian Federation
Dear Mr. President
We, the undersigned, believe that Russia can and should be a positive force in shaping the development of our increasingly interconnected world. As a major global power, a bridge between East and West and a country with a long and proud history in virtually every field of human endeavour, Russia can exert tremendous positive influence on the world of tomorrow.
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Russia fights to block EU’s ‘Magnitsky law’
Russia has sent a delegation to the European Parliament in an attempt to block a new law that will freeze the assets of anyone implicated in the death of the anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and ban them from travelling to member states.
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Optimism of the will: defending human rights in Russia
The second week of December promises to be highly symbolic for all those interested in human rights in Russia. [10 December] is Human Rights Day, and in five days time the verdict in the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be handed down. Simon Cosgrove looks forward, reflects back and salutes the courage of Russia’s human rights activists.
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Battle against corruption is an uphill struggle
Economist Intelligence Unit
SUMMARY
Corruption has become arguably Russia’s biggest problem, hampering its ability to recover from the 2008-09 economic crisis and preventing meaningful diversification of the economy away from natural resources. The crisis hit Russia hard, and its economy would also be likely to fare badly in any future global downturn. There are signs that the president, Dmitry Medvedev, is gradually moving against bribery, graft and outright pilfering of national resources by corrupt bureaucrats. However, this is a major challenge, and there is a high risk that progress will be insufficient to tackle this major obstacle to Russia’s economic development.
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Be critical, not hypocritical – Western leaders should be much readier to criticise Russia
After more than a decade with Vladimir Putin in charge, few can be sanguine about Russia’s direction. Its democracy is a sham. Strong growth may have raised living standards, but its dependence on oil and gas exports often makes its economy resemble that of the Soviet Union. Corruption has become so pervasive that it undermines even the functioning of the state. Above all, the rule of law is absent, as will be seen again on December 15th when a Russian judge is expected to sentence Mikhail Khodorkovsky to another term in prison. The true crime of Mr Khodorkovsky, an unlovely oil oligarch who fell out with Mr Putin in 2003, is that his present jail term is about to expire.
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Hermitage Capital urges Russian authorities to conduct transparent trial
Interfax
Jamison Firestone, the former boss of Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy [who died in Russian custody], has asked the Russian Prosecutor-General [Yuriy Chayka] and the head of the Russian Investigations Committee [Aleksandr Bastrykin] to conduct an open trial against Vyacheslav Khlebnikov, who figures in the case relating to embezzlement.
“J. Firestone demanded that the Prosecutor-General’s Office refuse Khlebnikov’s appeal, which is supported by the Interior Ministry, to conduct the trial in a ‘special’ (reduced) manner, without any examination of the evidence in court,” says a statement from the fund received by Interfax today.
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Justice for Sergei
CNC Power Breakfast
Senator Benjamin Cardin explains to CNC why the US Helsinki Commission is leading on bipartisan legislation in the US Congress to ensure that those involved in the arrest and death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky are banned from entering the USA. unshaven girls hairy girl www.zp-pdl.com https://zp-pdl.com/get-quick-online-payday-loan-now.php онлайн займ
Mr. Putin’s show trial
SOMETIME IN the next two weeks, a Moscow judge is expected to announce the conviction of and new prison sentences for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, whose oil company, Yukos, was the largest private company in Russia before it was crushed and confiscated by the regime of Vladimir Putin. If that occurs, the notion that Russia might be moving toward the rule of law under Mr. Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev will no longer deserve serious consideration.
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To learn more about what happened to Sergei Magnitsky please read below
- Sergei Magnitsky
- Why was Sergei Magnitsky arrested?
- Sergei Magnitsky’s torture and death in prison
- President’s investigation sabotaged and going nowhere
- The corrupt officers attempt to arrest 8 lawyers
- Past crimes committed by the same corrupt officers
- Petitions requesting a real investigation into Magnitsky's death
- Worldwide reaction, calls to punish those responsible for corruption and murder
- Complaints against Lt.Col. Kuznetsov
- Complaints against Major Karpov
- Cover up
- Press about Magnitsky
- Bloggers about Magnitsky
- Corrupt officers:
- Sign petition
- Citizen investigator
- Join Justice for Magnitsky group on Facebook
- Contact us
- Sergei Magnitsky
