Yesterday, Nikitin's lawyers filed a petition requesting the dismissal the case against the award-winning environmentalist. According to the lawyers, neither…

1998-01-01 12:00 News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International News Service 199/98 AI INDEX: EUR 46/27/98 13 OCTOBER 1998 MEDIA ADVISORY RUSSIAN FEDERATION Amnesty International sends observer to trial of Aleksandr Nikitin St Petersburg City Court Naberezhnaya Reki Fontanki, 16 10.30am, 20 October 1998 Amnesty International is sending an observer to the […]

1997-12-10 23 members of US Congress urge Yeltsin 23 members of US Congress urge Yeltsin to order a thorough review of the Nikitin case In a letter to russian president Boris Yeltsin, 23 members of the US Congress urge the russian government’s Procurator General to order a thorough review of the case against Alexandr Nikitin. […]

Lawmakers ask Russian President Yeltsin to demand review of environmentalist's case.

Press release from Nikitin’s defence attorneys, Moscow FSB vs. the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office Nearly 26 months have passed since a criminal lawsuit was filed against Aleksandr Nikitin, an employee of the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona. During this period, Nikitin was charged five times,and three times the investigators announced the preliminary investigation was completed. The […]

This evening, Aleksandr Nikitin leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow. Thus, the FSB finally gave up on this demand that he…