Word: melnikov
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...Vladimir Melnikov, janitor, handyman and an occasional driver...
...Andrey Illarionov, spoke publicly of the prosecutor's office's "selective" approach to the law. Other respected figures, like former Economics Minister Yevgeny Yasin, warned that the clampdown was part of a slow erosion of political and economic freedoms. "The whole case is quite simply politically motivated," says Aleksey Melnikov, a liberal member of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, who has in the past strongly criticized Yukos. Despite the uproar, prosecutors show no sign of backing down. Last Friday they announced they were now investigating a total of seven separate criminal cases connected with Yukos; five of them...