- Karinna Moskalenko
Karinna Moskalenko (born 1954 in
Baku ,Azerbaijan SSR ), isRussia ’s leading human rightslawyer [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1957604.ece Kremlin targets champion of hopeless causes - Times Online ] ] , defending, amongst others,Mikhail Khodorkovsky andGarry Kasparov .She and her team at Moscow’s
International Protection Centre have won 27 cases against the Russian government at theEuropean Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and have more than 100 applications pending.Recent Developments
The Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office is currently seeking to have Moskalenko
disbarred on the grounds of having negligently defended Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former owner ofYukos . Khodorkovsky however has made no complaint. In a statement he has declared himself “fully satisfied” with Moskalenko’s work. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1957604.ece Kremlin targets champion of hopeless causes - Times Online ] ]References
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