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,[1] the president of the International Association of Russian Advocates (French: Association Internationale d'Avocats Russes) with headquarters in Strasbourg[2] and a member of Moscow Helsinki Group[3] who defended, amongst others, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Garry Kasparov and Alexander Litvinenko.

She and her team at Moscow’s International Protection Centre have won 27 cases against the Russian government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and have more than 100 applications pending.

[9] On 22 October 2008, it was reported that French police investigating the case managed to find the previous owner, who gave a statement that he broke a mercury barometer in the car shortly before selling it to Moskalenko.

Peter Lavelle, a journalist for Russia Today stated that Moskalenko admits she had not cleaned the car since she bought it from the antiques dealer in August 2008.

[10][11] The revelation came ten days after the initial report, which saw Kremlin critics and some media outlets, including the Committee to Protect Journalists,[12] Lev Ponomaryov,[13] the Washington Post,[14] and The Globe and Mail,[15] accusing Russian security services, and Vladimir Putin himself, of orchestrating the poisoning in an attempt to intimidate or eliminate the vocal critic of the Kremlin.