Russian defense lawyers in hazardous profession
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress, and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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Computer security expert says Russia's infrastructure could be vulnerable to electronic warfare.
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Russian Law Enforcers on Wednesday conducted searches in the main office of the Yukos Oil Company in Moscow and in the office of the Yuganskneftegaz company in the Siberian city of Neftyugansk, the Interfax news agency reported.
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A Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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MOSCOW - Police stopped a man driving a car wired with land mines and explosives in downtown Moscow early Saturday, Russian security officials said.    The man, detained by Moscow police around 1 a.m., told police he had been paid $1,000 to park two cars with explosives in them along a Moscow street frequently used by top government officials, said the duty officer at the Federal Security Service...
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A fugitive Russian attorney has applied for political asylum in the United States after accusing Russia's security service of waging a vendetta against him, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Being a lawyer isn't really about exciting "Law and Order" courtroom drama. It's about paperwork. Lots of it.
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A list of terror-related explosions in Russia since December 2002:
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Sirens scream, jeeps fly past, helicopters prepare for take-off. Russia's flamboyant environmental enforcer Oleg Mitvol is in town.
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MOSCOW. June 20 (Interfax) - Russian and Lithuanian experts have acknowledged the ecological safety of the D-6 oil platform at the Kravtsovskoye field, which is being developed by Lukoil- Kaliningradmorneft.
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Lawyers for Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev seek to overturn a warrant for his arrest on tax evasion charges.
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In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom tactic: the âbloggers can be meanâ defense.
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The people of Russia have experienced the extremes to which terrorists are prepared to go to achieve their ends. Terrorists killed more than three-hundred people, mostly children, at a school they seized in Beslan.
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Just the word "Chechnya" can conjure images of guerrilla warfare, mine explosions, rampant kidnappings and, for many Russians, wily merchants out to fleece law-abiding citizens.
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TOMSK. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The prosecutor's office of Russia's Tomsk region regularly looks into the activities of oil companies and users of other subsoil resources, to check on compliance with environmental laws among other things, the regional prosecutor said on Tuesday.