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Echo Mosvky, 16.09.2008
Former YUKOS vice president Vasily Alexanyan, found in one of the Moscow

hospitals, is getting all the necessary medical care

The question of his transfer to another institution is not on the table for now, declared director of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments Yuri Kalinin to journalists. He added that the condition of

the patient does not apply to his [legal] competence. On the part of lawyers and of Alexanyan himself there are no complaints, underscored the head of FSIN.

Gravely ill former vice president of the company "YUKOS" Vasily Alexanyan "is getting that medical care which has been prescribed for him in accordance with consiliums of doctors", reported his lawyer Yelena Lvova on the air of the radio station "Echo Moskvy". According to her words, this includes a "course [of treatment] for HIV", which V Alexanyan underwent with "certain difficulties and complications for health" "As concerns the courses for chemotherapy for lymphoma, there are supposed to be several of them, they have started as of the month of

June and are also going heavily. Ahead still are courses of radiation, an operation for the removal of the spleen is possible" - said the lawyer.

For now, doctors are prohibiting investigative actions from being conducted with the gravely ill Vasily Alexanyan, said Yelena Lvova.

«Vedomosti», editorial policy, 17.09.2008

Former YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina will remain behind barbed wire for
several months more at least. Judge Yevgeni Kuzmin not only left the former YUKOS employee behind barbed wire. He sentenced her future third

child before birth to a term in camp. If they do not review this decision, Bakhmina faces an agonizing choice: to live in confinement together with an infant until the end of the term, i. e. at maximum until June 2011 (the law allows holding a child of children [sic] of inmates in camp houses up to three years), or to allow it to be taken home and to be separated from the child for months, possibly - years.

We will remind that Bakhmina - is not a murderer and not a participant in a robbery-related assault. She - is a lawyer, in YUKOS she worked as deputy head of the legal department, convicted on a charge of stealing shares of and evading the payment of taxes; existing disciplinary penalties have been lifted from her, she has rewards [in the camp's merit-point system], works in the section of discipline and order, has admitted guilt, is repenting of what was committed.

Nevertheless, the Zubovo-Polyansky district court of Mordovia refused to
conditionally release her early, apparently, in honor of the Year of the
family.

But the problem is not exhausted by the fate of the former YUKOS lawyer and her close ones. Refusing to release Bakhmina, the state is warning hired workers of business - accountants, lawyers, financiers and
directors: for the application of all sorts of tax schemes they will bear the same or nearly the same kind of liability as the company bosses and owners who had elaborated these schemes. Finally, as Bakhmina's experience has shown, children do not save from a lengthy term for economic crimes, on the other hand one is going to have to suffer doubly in captivity.

The YUKOS case is permeated with a multitude of examples of extreme cruelty towards its figurants. Yet another vivid example was the January refusal by the Supreme Court to release from confinement as-yet-not-found-guilty former vice president of the company Vasily Alexanyan, who in less than two years in a sizo has gone blind and contracted a bouquet of deadly diseases. Nevertheless, the occurrence with Bakhmina is still exceptional and signifies a new signal sent by the state to business and society as a whole.