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Karl Rove/Robert Amsterdam: can PR experts really save the day?

Reputation management has always been a problem for political leaders. From kings to democratic presidents, politicians have tried to control their image in order to gain legitimacy. Over the past ten years, a new kind of political expert has appeared: spin doctors. They...

created by jsmith2314 | 2 years ago
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Robert Amsterdam: beneath Khodorkovsky's propaganda

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, is in jail. Everybody agrees to say that his trial was far from being fair and no one knows if he’ll eventually be freed one day! Nonetheless, Khodorkovsky’s American lawyer (and PR guy) Robert...

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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...

created by blacksmith5795 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years 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...

created by blacksmith5795 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years 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...

created by jsmith2314 | 4 years ago
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