PITTED AGAINST THE rough justice of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, few Russians would think of reaching across the Atlantic for a lawyer who doesn't even speak their language. But when billionaire oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky faced trial for tax evasion and fraud in 2003-charges many considered politically motivated- he wanted someone to take his case to the world. So Khodorkovsky tapped Robert R. Amsterdam, a Bronx-born litigator now based in Canada, who has built his career defending clients such as Four Seasons Hotels Inc. in political hot spots from Nigeria to Venezuela.
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机译：反对弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）的克里姆林宫（Kremlin）的粗暴正义，很少有俄罗斯人会想到穿越大西洋寻找甚至不说他们语言的律师。但是，当亿万富翁石油大亨米哈伊尔·霍多尔科夫斯基（Mikhail Khodorkovsky）在2003年因逃税和欺诈而面临审判时-指控许多被认为是出于政治动机的人-他希望有人将他的案件推向世界。因此，霍多尔科夫斯基请来了罗伯特·R·阿姆斯特丹（Robert R. Amsterdam），他是布朗克斯出生的诉讼人，目前居住在加拿大，他的职业生涯遍及从尼日利亚到委内瑞拉的政治热点，为四季酒店公司等客户服务。
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