OPPOSITION RALLY IN MOSCOW
A woman holds a portrait of jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky during an opposition rally downtown Moscow on April 14, 2007. Police detained Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, and more than 100 other activists Saturday as they gathered for a forbidden anti-Kremlin demonstration in central Moscow. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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MOSCOW, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- An imprisoned former oil tycoon said Wednesday the European Court of Human Rights was trying to placate Russia when it ruled his prosecution was not political.
MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Vasily Aleksanyan, a former vice president and attorney for Russia's bankrupt Yukos oil company, has died at the age of 39, his family announced.
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STRASBOURG, France, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A human rights court in Strasbourg, France, said Russia violated the rights of oil giant Yukos, which was closed down in 2007 on tax evasion charges.
MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Russia's Supreme Court has ruled the pre-trial jailing of the former Yukos chief and his business partner from May to August last year was illegal.
MOSCOW, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed chief executive of Russian oil company Yukos, has joined the Russian weekly The New Times as a columnist, the publication said.
MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- An appeals court in Moscow said a second round of convictions against the former head of Russian oil company Yukos should stand.
MOSCOW, July 26 (UPI) -- The editor of an opposition Russian newspaper has offered a job to Platon Lebedev, the jailed ex-business partner of Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
MOSCOW, June 25 (UPI) -- A Russian businessman says former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a business partner should be granted parole on what some say are false claims.
MOSCOW, June 17 (UPI) -- Russian officials say Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil company boss convicted of embezzlement and tax fraud, has been sent back to prison.
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