JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Putin and the Khodorkovsky Case Khodorkovsky's Defense Attorney to Be Featured Speaker

JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Putin and the Khodorkovsky Case

Khodorkovsky's Defense Attorney to Be Featured Speaker

The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will host a forum, "Taxes, Oil and the Russian Private Sector: Putin and the Khodorkovsky Case," on Thursday, 02/24 at 4:30 p.m.

Sanford Saunders, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig LLP, will discuss one of the most important current international legal cases and its geopolitical implications. Saunders is representing Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Yukos Oil Company and Russia's most renowned businessman who was imprisoned more than a year ago by Vladimir Putin. Saunders will travel to Moscow to present closing arguments in the case in early March.

In introductory remarks, Bruce Parrott, director of the SAIS Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, will provide political context for the case, and Ruth Wedgwood, director of the SAIS International Law and Organization Program, will discuss the overall legal ramifications.

The event, which is open to the public, will be in the auditorium located on the first floor of the school's Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public who want to attend should RSVP to itlong@jhu.edu or 202.663.5745.

For more information, contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu.