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Moskalenko is a very high-profile target. She has won 27 cases against Russian authorities before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and has some 100 more pending. Moskalenko represents the jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, now an opposition leader. Moskalenko also represented the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot to death two years ago as she was entering her house in downtown Moscow. Moskalenko now represents Politkovskaya's family. Moskalenko discovered the poison just as she was set to travel to Moscow to take part in pretrial hearings...
...story, "Harvard Chess Club Ties Beijing Team," misstated the name of a chess maneuver. It is "Poison Pawn" not "Poison Pond...
...began playing at the age of five and won the international chess master title when I was 13,” Wang Shuai, a player from the University of Beijing, said in Chinese...
When the University of Beijing team arrived at Harvard this past Friday, Harvard Chess Team President Sebastian I. Predescu ’10 welcomed them by giving them a thorough tour of the campus...
...students will leave Cambridge next Tuesday, and the members of the Harvard Chess Team will head to Beijing in March for a rematch. CORRECTION