Ruling the law
More assertions and denials about managing the rule of law in Russia.Bosses Pressed Russian Judge, Official Says
The judge in last year’s politically charged trial of the former oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky openly admitted that the verdict would be dictated to him by his superiors, a former court official charged in an interview published on Friday…
[Former official] Igor Kravchenko is the second court worker to discuss official interference with the Khodorkovsky trial. In February, a former court assistant, Natalya Vasilyeva, said senior officials had put persistent pressure on Judge Danilkin during the course of the trial.
Judge Danilkin said it was not true, and a spokeswoman for the Moscow City Court repeated that on Friday…
Mr. Kravchenko said that during the trial, Judge Danilkin was frequently summoned to the Moscow City Court for impromptu meetings, and that the judge was clearly exasperated by the demands of senior officials…
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