Khodorkovsky's attorney recognised by her colleagues abroad. Karinna Moskalenko, founder of Moscow’s International Protection Centre and a member of the Khodorkovsky legal defence team, has received the prestigious 2008 William J. Brennan Jr. Award this week at a ceremony in the USA at Rutgers University Law School.

since Mikhail Khodorkovsky's imprisonment till Russia's elections for President.

Karinna Moskolenko is honoured at a gathering of the General Assembly of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.

In the letter, the MPs promised to do their best to attract attention of the European Council to Lebedev case.

Defence attorney Yuri Schmidt and human rights advocate Lev Ponomarev described legal violations in the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev case during an OSCE conference in Tbilisi, Georgia.

A support group for Mikhail Khodorkovsky in France was launched to campaign for his status as a political prisoner.

The Congressional Human Rights Caucus, in conjunction with the Russia Working Group, hosted a briefing entitled "Russia: Decline of Rule of Law and Democracy: What Lies Ahead?" The panel included statements by Congressman Tom Lantos, the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and human rights activists. Read more »

New York University School of Law hosts the conference, "Russia and U.S. National Interests," with a special section dedicated to the Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Yukos cases. Presenters included Khodorkovsky lawyers Karina Moskalenko, Yuri Schmidt, John Pappalardo and Sanford Saunders.

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a special hearing on Russia during which Group MENATEP Director Tim Osborne and Yukos CEO Steven Theede urge U.S. lawmakers to recognize Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Alexei Pichugin as political prisoners.

The Foreign Ministers of the European Union meet in Brussels to review and recast relations between the nations of Europe and the Russian Federation.