Russia and the Rule of Law

September 2010

Past Event

Russia and the Rule of Law

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

September 30, 2010

September 2010

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

S. Enders Wimbush

Hudson Institute Senior Vice President

Vadim Klyuvgant

Lead defense attorney for Khodorkovsky

David Satter

Hudson Senior Fellow

Andrei Piontkovsky

Author of Russian Identity

In 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once one of Russia's wealthiest businessmen as head of YUKOS Oil, was arrested on what most analysts considered trumped up and politically motivated charges of multi-billion ruble tax evasion.

When Khodorkovsky was eligible for parole in 2008, prosecutors leveled a second series of money-laundering charges against him, accusing him and his business partner of stealing 350 million tons of oil. The Economist described these charges as "Kafkaesque." Khodorkovsky's second trial is likely to wind up this fall.

The Khodorkovsky case exemplifies the abuse of the legal system, the state's blatant role in property confiscation and redistribution, and wide-spread state corruption, all of which continue to rage in Putin's Russia despite growing internal and international skepticism.

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