Robert Amsterdam: the lobbyist hired to harm Russia's reputation

Just the other day I read an article in the Serbian newspaper Borba on Khodorkovsky and his famous lawyer Robert Amsterdam. The article explained that Khodorkovsky’s trial was as much his own fault and Robert Amsterdam's than that of the so-called “Putin clan”. While...
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created by blacksmith5795 | 24 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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Yukos case: Robert Amsterdam's failed strategy

As the trial of fallen oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky begins anew in Russia, one name in particular keeps on surfacing again and again in its media coverage: Robert Amsterdam. Yet Amsterdam is not, contrary to what is often relayed in the media, Khodorkovsky’s lead lawyer in...
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created by blacksmith5795 | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago
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Yukos case: Robert Amsterdam, a "soviet style" propagandist

 In 2003, Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was indicted for fraud by the Russian government and his oil empire Yukos accused of significant tax evasion. Both were put on trial and destroyed. Beneath official accusations of corruption and tax evasion, Khodorkovsky...
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