Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov passed to the European Court of Human Rights his written testimony in the YUKOS v. Russia case, recently accepted for consideration by the court. According to the testimony, in July 2003 Kasyanov, then Prime Minister, repeatedly asked Vladimir Putin, then President, of the reasons of the pressure put upon YUKOS and the arrest of its major shareholder Platon Lebedev (Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested later that year). In the end Putin allegedly responded that Khodorkovsky and other YUKOS shareholders had financed the Communist Party without Putin's consent (while liberal opposition parties Yabloko and SPS allegedly had been financed by Khodorkovsky with Putin's consent).
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