The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg issued a lengthy ruling on Tuesday finding that Russia violated treaty provisions requiring fair trials for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his ...

The court reduced a total sentence to Platon Lebedev by three years from 13 to 10 years. So, if this verdict is challenged by the prosecutor’s office, Lebedev will be set free in July 2013.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev walked free from prison on Friday after Russia's Supreme Court ordered his early release. The 57-year-old had served 10-and ...

MOSCOW, December 26. /ITAR-TASS/. A prison term administered to Platon Lebedev under a second verdict passed on the Yukos case should be shortened, Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said ...

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.

Khodorkovsky, his imprisoned partner Platon Lebedev, also a suspect, and their attorneys were summoned to a detention facility in the remote Siberian city of Chita to undergo questioning Wednesday ...

Platon Lebedev, jailed business partner of Russian ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, gestures after hearing the verdict inside the defendants' box during a court hearing to consider a request for ...

Co-defendant Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky’s business partner and chairman of Group Menatep, was also sentenced to nine years, and both men were ordered to pay a total of $615 million in taxes ...

Platon Lebedev headed a holding company founded by Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, but was jailed in 2005 along with his business partner on charges of tax evasion and theft.

MOSCOW — A famous actress, an admired newspaper editor and a former Duma deputy spoke in favor of parole for the business partner of onetime oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday, but ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg issued a lengthy ruling on Tuesday finding that Russia violated treaty provisions requiring fair trials for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his ...

MOSCOW, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev walked free on Friday after more than 10 years in prison, following in his better-known ...