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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Russian President Vladimir Putin said a bill that would free thousands of jailed businessmen required revisions.
The head of the Moscow City Court Thursday reduced the prison sentences for two company heads convicted for theft of oil and money laundering to 11 years.
A Russian court Friday reversed a lower court's decision to lower the sentence of a former businessman serving time for fraud and tax evasion.
A Russian judge Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of an associate of the main figure in the so-called Yukos affair.
A Russian prosecutor says almost three years should be shaved from the sentence being served by a former tycoon involved with the Yukos Oil Co.
In the few remaining days before the August congressional recess the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House have to find a solution that would please American business, sting Russia in the butt for its poor human rights record without, however, offending other nations whose record in this matter is even worse.
The United States should prioritize the protection of its citizens abroad and stand up for falsely imprisoned Americans such as Zack Shahin.
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.
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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