As Moscow prosecutors prepare an espionage case against jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, lawyers predict a journey through a justice system with the familiar features of Western courts but little of their substance
, and is sending undercover agents into Russia’s hinterlands to gather information about its armaments production.
Soviet police and courts gave a legalistic patina to the Kremlin’s most brutal undertakings. During the purges of the late 1930s under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the police bureaucracy kept a punctilious file on each execution victim as it filled mass graves throughout the country, each file typically containing a questionnaire, an interrogation transcript and a ruling from a troika of Soviet officials, ordering the defendant to be shot.
When Mr. Putin came to power in 2000, he forged ahead with new reforms that ironed out contradictions within the Russian legal system. In 2002, he backed a new code of criminal procedure that, on paper, gave defendants the same rights as those in the West. Fundamental Western concepts, such as forbidding confessions made to police in the absence of a defense lawyer, came into effect.“In many ways it was a major step forward,” said Mr. Firestone.
In 2003, oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, were arrested. In drawn-out trials where the verdicts were widely believed to be foregone conclusions, Mr. Khodorkovsky often stared at the floor while Mr. Lebedev wore earplugs and read novels. They were convicted of a variety of economic crimes connected to the alleged looting of their oil company, Yukos, and each spent about 10 years in prison. Each maintained his innocence.
She made the call after riding a bus where she overheard a soldier’s conversation about troops from a nearby military base being sent to Ukraine, he said. Russia denied having any troops in Ukraine at the time. In 2021, Mr. Pavlov left Russia when the FSB told him he was under investigation for his work defending Ivan Safranov, a journalist who was accused of treason for allegedly disclosing military secrets. Mr. Pavlov said that the FSB suspected him of disclosing classified information, too.was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Mr. Pavlov, who was never charged with a crime, now lives in Germany.will likely be secret and tedious, said Mr. Pavlov, who witnessed a number of trials.
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