Karinna Moskalenko

Karinna Akopovna Moskalenko (Russian: Кари́нна Ако́повна Москале́нко) (born February 9, 1954, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is Russia's leading human rights lawyer, the president of the International Association of Russian Advocates (French: Association Internationale d'Avocats Russes) with headquarters in Strasbourg and a member of Moscow Helsinki Group who defended, amongst others, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Garry Kasparov and Alexander Litvinenko. She won the first ever case against Russian Federation heard in public hearings of the European Court of Human Rights.

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