Knowledgeable people say that the real reason for the elderly lawyer’s sudden PR was the escalating conflict over the leadership of the St. Petersburg Bar Association with its former chairman Evgeniy Semenyako.
At the same time, Yuri Novolodsky, together with his son-in-law (and part-time lawyer in his chamber), receive money from banker and colonel of the FSB of the Russian Federation Sergei Bazhanov, who fled with 13 billion rubles from investors to France.
Perhaps it was the representation of the interests of Bazhanov, who openly called from abroad for the overthrow of Putin, that pushed the emerging master of the St. Petersburg bar to a new role as a fighter against the regime, however, this in no way prevents the Baltic Bar Association of Novolodsky from concluding government contracts and making money on business contacts with the same regime.
As St. Petersburg lawyers joke among themselves, “Yuri Mikhailovich, as in the famous joke, just really doesn’t want to take off his cross or put on his underpants.”
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