Russia’s president orders review of conviction of Khodorkovsky
Source: Washington Post
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered the country’s prosecutor-general to review the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon whose imprisonment was widely viewed as Kremlin punishment for his political ambitions.
In a statement released by the Kremlin, Medvedev also ordered re-examining the conviction of Khodorkovsky’s business partner Platon Lebedev and 30 other people. The order follows Medvedev’s meeting in February with leaders of the wave of massive protests that arose in December. Russian news reports say leaders at that meeting presented Medvedev with a list of names of those they regarded as political prisoners.
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In a separate order, Medevedev told the Justice Ministry to present information about the denial of registration to Party of People’s Freedom, an opposition grouping led by a prominent prostest figure, Vladimir Ryzhkov.
The moves came just hours after Vladimir Putin won a return to the Kremlin in Sunday’s presidential election. With vallots counted from more than 99 percent of the precincts, Putin had more than 63 percent of the vote, Central Elections Commission head Vladimir Churov said Monday.
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