http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/international/europe/01LEGA.html?hp"What Chance Justice Is Done? Russia's System Is Questioned"
Anton V. Drel arrived at the grim Mastrosskaya Tishina prison here last Saturday and signed the papers declaring him the official counsel of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest tycoon. Then a prosecutor presented Mr. Drel with a summons to be questioned as a witness.
"Even in the Soviet Union, that never happened," he said.
Lets stop right there...My developer and about 230+ homeowners are involved in a potential litigation. I assure you that the developer's attorney will get EXACTLY the same treatment; he's engaged in conflicts of interest, he's apparently aided and abetted a fraudulent scheme, etc... Looks like justice to me.
Few here believe he does — even the deputy chairman of President Vladimir V. Putin's advisory committee on the judiciary, Sergei E. Vitsin. "I would say there are more features of political games here than of justice," he said in an interview.
Mr. Putin has often called for cementing the rule of law in Russia, but the Khodorkovsky investigation has underscored just how far short the country is of that goal
Few here believe that Ken Lay is innocent, and it's really, really hard to believe that any Russian billionaire didn't get that way through graft and corruption.
A really "liberal" piece from the "liberal" NYT.