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...Defense lawyer Karinna Moskalenko sees some judicial improvements in the new trial. "The fact that the hearing will be public signals a major breakthrough," she said. "Also it is good that the trial will be in Moscow, we have wanted to move Khodorkovsky here for a long time...
...Still, Moskalenko is cautious about her expectations. "I am used to working for 33 years without hope. We just do what we have to do, but sadly the verdict does not depend...
...already speculating on how a $34 billion payout could cripple the economy. Others suggest that, with a judgment against it, Russia could sever its ties with the European Council and the ECHR altogether. "This is speculation, but if it happened, it would be more than a loss," says Karina Moskalenko, a human-rights lawyer who has worked with Khodorkovsky. "It would be a disaster for all the individuals who have been cheated by our judicial system. For them the European Court of Human Rights is their last possible hope...
...Moskalenko, however, is not ready to give up on Russian justice, in spite of her uphill battles to make sure local courts actually deliver it. (The government, at one point, unsuccessfully tried to disbar her, and Moskalenko believes that she too may be targeted by enemies.) "The current system is such that the prosecution has a big advantage over the defense," she says. Among Moskalenko's clients are the children of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who reported on human-rights abuses and was slain in October 2006. Moskalenko does not see the acquittal last week of Politkovskaya's alleged contract...
...Moskalenko is a very high-profile target. She has won 27 cases against Russian authorities before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and has some 100 more pending. Moskalenko represents the jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, now an opposition leader. Moskalenko also represented the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot to death two years ago as she was entering her house in downtown Moscow. Moskalenko now represents Politkovskaya's family. Moskalenko discovered the poison just as she was set to travel to Moscow to take part in pretrial hearings...