On October 15, Ms. Moskalenko is scheduled to participate in the preliminary hearings in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Ms. Politkovskaya, the respected Russian journalist and human rights activist known for her work on the Chechen conflict and opposition to President Putin, was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building in October 2006.

Ms. Moskalenko represents the family of the assassinated journalist. She has also represented torture victims in the Chechen Republic, relatives of those killed in the 2004 Beslan school siege, and survivors of the hostage crisis at Moscow´s Nord-Ost theatre in 2002. She has also represented former owner of Russia´s YUKOS oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Garry Kasparov, the leader of the anti-Putin opposition group oeThe Other the Russian Federation.

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