Mr Danilkin promptly rejected his assistant's statement. But human-rights activists and members of a civic council patronised by Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, have called for an investigation.

On December 30, Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev to 14 years in prison. The first eight years were to run concurrently with the eight-year sentences for tax ...

If Danilkin had refused to cooperate with the City Court, then he would probably have been asked to resign, or sacked. If it's political and the result is pre-ordained, then you simply lose your ...

Usachyova said that Danilkin "has the right" to sue his assistant if he finds her words libelous. Vasilyeva, who said in the interview that she expected to be fired, could not be reached.

Let Judge Danilkin’s decision to clear the courtroom be the last time Russians cringe when they look at their system of justice. Yuri Schmidt is one of the lead defense attorneys for Mikhail ...

Danilkin has rejected Vasilyeva's allegations, calling her interview "a provocation." He has since said, however, that he does not intend to file criminal slander charges - or even civil libel ...

Judge Danilkin began writing the sentence but it did not please his superiors, she said. "As a result he received a different verdict which he was obliged to read out," she told gazeta.ru.

Of Danilkin, he says: “Can’t hear half of what he’s saying. And what I can hear doesn’t make sense." His wife adds: “The judge is ashamed of himself, he can’t wait for this to be over." ...

The Big Book Award jury handed the first award in the amount of 50 thousand US dollars to the writer and journalist Lev Danilkin. However, many literary critics were waiting for this winner due to ...

"Danilkin began to write the verdict. I suspect that what was in that verdict did not suit his higher-ups, and therefore he received another verdict, which he had to read," Ms Vasilyeva told the ...

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 ...