Anatoly Kucherena Explained

Anatoly Kucherena
Birth Date:1960 8, mf=yes
Birth Place:Mîndra, Călărași District, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Native Name:Анатолий Кучерена
Native Name Lang:ru
Birthname:Anatoly Grigorievich Kucherena
Nationality:Russian
Occupation:Lawyer

Anatoly Grigorievich Kucherena (Russian: Анатолий Григорьевич Кучерена; born 23 August 1960) is a Russian attorney, public figure, Doctor of Law, and professor. From mid-2013, Kucherena has represented former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's interests in the Russian Federation. Kucherena continues to represent Snowden, pro bono, on an occasional basis.[1] In 2013, according to Izvestia, he was known as a person who spoke in favour of the banning of anonymizer software: advocating the prosecution of its development, distribution and usage by including it in the "malware" software category (a view which contradicts the terminology used in the industry).[2]

In June 2014, American film director Oliver Stone acquired rights to a screen adaptation of Kucherena's novel, Time of the Octopus, the story of fictional American whistleblower Joshua Kold. Threatened by his government and waiting for a decision on his request for Russian asylum, Kold spends three weeks in the transit area of the Moscow airport. Stone said, "Anatoly has written a 'grand inquisitor'-style Russian novel weighing the soul of his fictional whistleblower against the gravity of a 1984 tyranny that has achieved global proportions."[3] The book, the first in a "psychological-political thriller trilogy," was released on 3 March 2015 in Russian and 29 January 2017 in English. The Moscow Times reported that Kucherena said Snowden had received a copy of the book and liked it.[4]

Background

High-profile cases and clients

At different times, Kucherena has also represented:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US whistleblower Snowden works in Russian company, not married yet — lawyer . TASS . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210192021/http://tass.ru/en/russia/776625 . 2015-02-10 . 2016-09-18 . live .
  2. News: Силовики предлагают запретить ПО, скрывающее пользователя в Сети. Izvestia. ru. Law enforcement propose to ban the software concealing user's identity in the Internet. https://web.archive.org/web/20130603235331/http://izvestia.ru/news/551271. 2013-06-03 . 2016-11-19.
  3. Web site: Oliver Stone Options Novel by Edward Snowden's Russian Lawyer. Stuart. Kemp. The Hollywood Reporter. June 10, 2014.
  4. Web site: Snowden's Lawyer to Release Book on March 3 . 2015-02-17 . 2024-04-15.
  5. [Henri Reznik]
  6. Web site: Main. msal.ru.
  7. Web site: Общественная палата Российской Федерации. www.oprf.ru.
  8. Web site: Общественный совет при Министерстве Внутренних Дел России. xn--n1ag.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai.
  9. Web site: Общероссийское Общественное Движение "Гражданское общество" | Анатолий Кучерена . 2014-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141023161924/http://www.kucherena.ru/go/ . 2014-10-23 . dead .
  10. Web site: Institute for Democracy and Cooperation . 2014-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141011002931/http://www.indemco.org/index.php?language=2 . 2014-10-11 .
  11. [:ru:Лисовский, Сергей Фёдорович]
  12. [:ru:Ковалёв, Валентин Алексеевич]
  13. Web site: Belarus charges Anzhi owner in potash probe. au.finance.yahoo.com. 2 September 2013 .
  14. News: Fugitive Ukrainian President Shows Up in Moscow. Associated Press. 27 February 2014. Haaretz.