Nearing parole, Putin foe faces new charges
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MOSCOW -- New money-laundering and embezzlement charges filed yesterday against Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky make it unlikely the prominent political enemy of President Vladimir V. Putin will be released from prison before Russia's 2008 presidential election.
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The Russian authorities file new charges of fraud and abuse of office against self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
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A defense lawyer for jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Tuesday anti-democratic trends were emerging in Russia under President Vladimir Putin with the aim of quieting political opponents.
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Prosecutors announced a forgery investigation Tuesday against the campaign of the only liberal Kremlin critic still in Russia's presidential race, a contest already expected to be won easily by Vladimir Putin's hand-picked candidate to succeed him.
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The new charges against Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and one of his business partners include embezzlement and money laundering.
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A powerful Russian prosecutor said on  Friday self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky could be  behind the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, a  charge dismissed by a friend of Litvinenko.
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Russian authorities say they intend to pursue a criminal case for bribery against Ukraine's nominated prime minister.
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prosecutors will establish the truth after this month&#39;s re-run of a rigged presidential election. want the case to affect campaigning for his new run-off against Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on December 26.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the West of indulging terrorists. Putin says he faces double standards in the attitude towards terrorism.
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Lawyers for Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev are seeking to overturn a warrant for his arrest on charges of tax evasion.
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Michael Vick, already looking at a federal prison term for bankrolling a dogfighting operation in rural Virginia, now faces two state charges that could get him more prison time if he's convicted.
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The investigation into the death of a Russian dissident in London heats up and sheds an ugly light on Vladimir Putin's rule
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MOSCOW, Sept. 25 -- Andrei Piontkovsky, one of Russia's most pungent political commentators and a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in Washington, was accused in court Tuesday of inciting violence against Russians, Jews and Americans as well as insulting and stirring feelings of inferiorit...
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Russian prosecutors have brought  criminal charges against emigre tycoon Boris Berezovsky on  suspicion of plotting to seize power, his lawyer said on  Monday.
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The former head of a district in Chechnya has been charged as an accomplice in organizing the execution-style murder of a Russian investigative journalist, his lawyer said Friday.
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A man wanted in several countries for allegedly running an international fraud operation is detained in Russia.
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Russia said on Friday it would hold a  retrial next week of two Chechens accused of murdering U.S.  journalist Paul Klebnikov, but a lawyer for one defendant said  police were still trying to find the man.