Anatoly Grigoryevich Kucherena
Anatoli Grigoryevich Kucherena ( Russian Анатолий Григорьевич Кучерена ; born August 23, 1960 in Mîndra , Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a Russian lawyer .
Kucherena served with the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Union , then moved to Moscow as a traffic police officer and began distance learning in 1985. In 1993 he was admitted to the bar. He successfully defended Boris Yeltsin's campaign manager, Sergei Lissowski , who was caught in 1996 while carrying half a million US dollars in a box for copy paper from campaign headquarters.
Kutscherena's clients also include Alimschan Tursunowitsch Tochtachunov , who is wanted by the USA for suspected fraud and illegal gambling, the whistleblower Edward Snowden who was stranded in Moscow in June 2013, and the former President of Ukraine , Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in 2014 as a result of the Euromaidan .
Kutscherena founded the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation .
Web links
- Official website
- Luke Harding : Is Edward Snowden a prisoner in Russia? , The Guardian , February 3, 2014 ("It's unclear why Snowden reached out to Kucherena.")
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/us-seeks-arrest-of-reputed-russian-mobster/478756.html
- ^ Fugitive Ukrainian President Shows Up in Moscow
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| SURNAME | Kutscherena, Anatoly Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кучерена, Анатолий Григорьевич (Russian spelling); Kucherena, Anatoliĭ Grigorʹevich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mîndra , Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic |