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22 October 2005, 1837 EDT

Here’s the AP’s headline:

Lawyers Condemn Oil Tycoon’s New Home

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Lawyers for imprisoned oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky condemned his being sent to a penal colony in Russia’s Far East and said Friday they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

In early October, after his appeal of the conviction on fraud and tax evasion was rejected, Khodorkovsky was transferred out of a Moscow jail. But the oil magnate’s location was not announced until Thursday.

Khodorkovsky’s Moscow-based lawyer, Genrikh Padva, said his client had been sent to prison colony No. 10 in Krasnokamensk, a remote village in the Chita region, about 3,000 miles east of Moscow. Khodorkovsky has six years to serve of an eight-year sentence.

His lawyers said they fear the prison, near China’s border, is rife with radioactive contamination. The Priargunskoye uranium mining and processing complex is about 10 miles outside the penal colony.

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Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.