December 2010
2 posts
Russian justice: don’t cross the Leader!
On 27 December Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of money laundering and probably faces another long stretch in prison. 4 days earlier retired colonel Vladimir Kvachkov was suddenly arrested. Examining these two, and one other, apparently dissimilar cases, Dmitry Travin finds that the threads lead back to Prime Minister Putin and perceived challenges to his power and/or interests.
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Whistle-Blowing Prosecutor In Russian North Gets...
MOSCOW — A former prosecutor in northern Russia who gained notoriety after blowing the whistle on courtroom evidence-tampering has been sentenced to 18 months in a penal colony after being accused of falsifying evidence himself. A city court in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic, on December 3 handed down the sentence after finding the prosecutor, 27-year-old Grigory Chekalin,...
