Natalia Vasilyeva, an assistant to Judge Viktor Danilkin, who found Mr Khodorkovsky guilty, has said his verdict was imposed on him from above after the first draft was rejected. Throughout the ...

The gala awarding ceremony of literary Big Book Award was held in Pashkov house in Moscow, TASS reports. Lev Danilkin for the book under title Lenin. Pantokrator solar dust, Sergei Shargunov for the ...

FORMER Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday described Russia as an imitation of democracy and accused its rulers of conceit and contempt for voters, in his harshest criticism of the ...

Day three of the verdict, and Judge Viktor Danilkin is hitting top speed. “And more than $135m did not arrive to the joint stock oil company Yukos in 2001 ... and other shareholders were ...

Natalya Vasilyeva, who had worked as an aide to Judge Viktor Danilkin, said her former superior received instructions by telephone from higher Moscow court officials during Khodorkovsky's trial at ...

As I blogged earlier in the week, Vasilyeva, an aide to Viktor Danilkin, the presiding judge in Mikhail Khodorkovsky's recent trial, told "Gazeta.ru" that the verdict and harsh sentence in that ...

"Khodorkovsky and Lebedev's guilt has been fully proved by the investigation and trial," Judge Viktor Danilkin said in reading the verdict. Sitting inside a glass cage in the courtroom, the two ...

Viktor Danilkin said he would stand by the verdict "until the end of my days" The Russian judge who extended the jail term of dissident tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 14 years has denied he had ...

Judge Viktor Danilkin on Monday handed down a guilty verdict against Russia's former richest man and Kremlin critic in a ruling that was condemned as a show of selective justice by both the White ...

Prosecutors are seeking an additional six-year prison term for the former Yukos oil company CEO but it could take judge Viktor Danilkin days to read what lawyers said was a 250-page verdict and ...

Judge Viktor Danilkin convicted Khodorkovsky in December of embezzlement and money laundering, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison - reduced to 13 on appeal. The term is running concurrently ...