Platon Lebedev is back in Moscow after his release from prison. The business partner of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was freed late on January 24 from a prison in Russia's ...

Now, his partner, Platon Lebedev, is to walk free. Both men spent more than 10 years in prison in a case seen as revenge for Khodorkovsky challenging Putin's economic and political power in the ...

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled to grant immediate release to Platon Lebedev, the jailed business partner of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian news agencies reported. The two partners ...

Platon Lebedev had been serving a 13-year sentence for tax evasion and money laundering. But a court in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region, where Lebedev is serving his prison sentence ...

Platon Lebedev (right) and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (left) were convicted over their activities as core shareholders in Yukos, then Russia's biggest oil producer Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the ...

The court on Tuesday cut the sentence of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev to 10 years and 10 months from 11 years. This means Lebedev should now be released in May 2014 and ...

There are many examples of these disturbing trends, and the new trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev is a case in point. The two businessmen are each serving eight-year sentences for ...

Former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky knows where he stands in Vladimir Putin’s Russia regarding new charges brought against him and business associate Platon Lebedev. Former Yukos head Mikhail ...

On July 1 the paper said: “Yesterday, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were charged with a theft of some 350 million tons of oil and laundering 487 billion roubles and $7.5 billion.

As early as Wednesday, Khodorkovsky and fellow defendant Platon Lebedev, another major Yukos shareholder, will file into a cramped Moscow courtroom and hear the verdict of the three-judge court.