Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned sentenced yesterday in his second attempt, this time on charges of embezzlement.
A Moscow court is also his co-defendant, Platon Lebedev, of embezzlement, the news agency Itar-Tass condemned.
Yesterday's decision follows revelations about secret cables from Wikileaks published U.S. diplomats believe that the trial of Khodorkovsky has revealed the Kremlin retains de''cínico system, eliminating impunity in which political opponents.''
The Russian government is trying to show the rule of law is respected in the study of lipstick on a se''lápiz pig''policy Khodorkovsky, according to a dispatch from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in December.
Vadim Klyuvgant, the defender said.''The trial was a travesty of justice, the costs are completely wrong, but I fear that the proposition is very real''
Khodorkovsky, 47, oil tycoon, who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to prison for eight years in prison for fraud two years later he appeared in court in Moscow yesterday to hear the verdict.
Proponents of man, once Russia's richest say the Kremlin ordered the prosecution in retaliation for his funding of opposition parties.
Khodorkovsky could get six years in prison at the end of his current sentence, which expires in October. He will be sentenced this week or after 10 be January when the Russian New Year, said the lawyers.
Although U.S. officials publicly, the study that began in March last year, the baldness of the language have criticized the secret cable attention.
Write said in Washington in December, a policy officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that the international lawyers believe that the trial judge to give defense lawyers a chance Khodorkovsky tried.
An assessment of extinction said the officer:''The fact that court procedures are meticulously revealed in a case like that for purely political motivation is a paradox.
''This shows the commitment of the government [of Russia] is willing to pay to save face ... be the application of a rule surface brightness with impunity on a cynical system where political opponents are eliminated.''
Assessment reiterates diplomatic cables used in the United States was beginning Wikileaks, which describes Russia as a state cleptocrático''mafia''en officials, oligarchs and organized crime are inextricably linked releases.
Indirectly refers to a meeting in 2000, when Vladimir Putin, then president, with Khodorkovsky and other oligarchs and meets 20, allegedly warned left out of politics in exchange for their business in peace.
There is a widespread understanding'','' the diplomat said,''Khodorkovsky had violated the unwritten rules of the game:''If you stay out of politics, you can fill their pockets as much as you want.
Putin, now prime minister dismissed the criticism of the test. Russia,''a legal system more humane world.''He said.''It is my conviction that the thief should be in prison''
Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky oil company, was seized and sold to companies controlled by the state after his conviction. Last week, Putin mocked last appearances on television with his dog, Buffy. Love Dogs''is the only genuine good feeling that pervades the ice sheet,''he wrote. ''The love of dogs has become a substitute for a loved one.''
A source close to Khodorkovsky predijo''es likely to remain in jail, while Putin is in power,''according to U.S. intelligence cable.
A Moscow court is also his co-defendant, Platon Lebedev, of embezzlement, the news agency Itar-Tass condemned.
Yesterday's decision follows revelations about secret cables from Wikileaks published U.S. diplomats believe that the trial of Khodorkovsky has revealed the Kremlin retains de''cínico system, eliminating impunity in which political opponents.''
The Russian government is trying to show the rule of law is respected in the study of lipstick on a se''lápiz pig''policy Khodorkovsky, according to a dispatch from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in December.
Vadim Klyuvgant, the defender said.''The trial was a travesty of justice, the costs are completely wrong, but I fear that the proposition is very real''
Khodorkovsky, 47, oil tycoon, who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to prison for eight years in prison for fraud two years later he appeared in court in Moscow yesterday to hear the verdict.
Proponents of man, once Russia's richest say the Kremlin ordered the prosecution in retaliation for his funding of opposition parties.
Khodorkovsky could get six years in prison at the end of his current sentence, which expires in October. He will be sentenced this week or after 10 be January when the Russian New Year, said the lawyers.
Although U.S. officials publicly, the study that began in March last year, the baldness of the language have criticized the secret cable attention.
Write said in Washington in December, a policy officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that the international lawyers believe that the trial judge to give defense lawyers a chance Khodorkovsky tried.
An assessment of extinction said the officer:''The fact that court procedures are meticulously revealed in a case like that for purely political motivation is a paradox.
''This shows the commitment of the government [of Russia] is willing to pay to save face ... be the application of a rule surface brightness with impunity on a cynical system where political opponents are eliminated.''
Assessment reiterates diplomatic cables used in the United States was beginning Wikileaks, which describes Russia as a state cleptocrático''mafia''en officials, oligarchs and organized crime are inextricably linked releases.
Indirectly refers to a meeting in 2000, when Vladimir Putin, then president, with Khodorkovsky and other oligarchs and meets 20, allegedly warned left out of politics in exchange for their business in peace.
There is a widespread understanding'','' the diplomat said,''Khodorkovsky had violated the unwritten rules of the game:''If you stay out of politics, you can fill their pockets as much as you want.
Putin, now prime minister dismissed the criticism of the test. Russia,''a legal system more humane world.''He said.''It is my conviction that the thief should be in prison''
Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky oil company, was seized and sold to companies controlled by the state after his conviction. Last week, Putin mocked last appearances on television with his dog, Buffy. Love Dogs''is the only genuine good feeling that pervades the ice sheet,''he wrote. ''The love of dogs has become a substitute for a loved one.''
A source close to Khodorkovsky predijo''es likely to remain in jail, while Putin is in power,''according to U.S. intelligence cable.
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