Defence attorney Yury Schmidt comments on the latest menace to his profession

By departing president’s proposal.

The offices of the Centre of International Protection and of the Human Rights movement were attacked last night.

Òelegram from Karinna Moskalenko to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yury Ivanovich Kalinin.

New law makes lawyers more exposed.

Yury Schmidt says chances are improving for Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s release on parole

Interview with Karinna Moskalenko

His lawyers suggested that he petition for parole.

Yury Schmidt comments on the proposal by Pavel Krashennikov, chairman of the Duma legislation committee, to amend the way in which time spent in pre-trial detention is deducted from a prison sentence

defence's statement

Moscow City Court rejects appeal on a point of law by the defence team.

The judges of the Moscow City Court will for a fifth time scrutinise the legality or otherwise of conducting the investigation in Chita.  A hearing is announced.

Documents for 7 April.

On Saturday at 1 pm in Chita (local time) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and their lawyers had to stop reading the case materials. In Moscow they submitted a petition for the investigation to be closed.

The press centre has now published in full the decision issued on 16 September by the presidium of the Moscow City Court. It is the third successive judicial body to rule that the 20 March 2007 decision of the Basmanny district court is lawful and substantiated.

IHF appeals to Russian authorities to end harassment against human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and her organization.

Novoye Vremya looks into the attack on the Centre for International Defence Aid.

Yesterday Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyer was the guest of two radio-stations – Ekho Moskvy and Radio Svoboda.