| Strategic Communications Agency General Director Malkin
said his company has no clients with any connection to Yukos, and its basic
client is the Yabloko party, izvestia.ru reported on 23 October. Yukos's
press spokesman, Aleksandr Shadrin, denied that Yukos has anything to do
with the Strategic Communications Agency. Malkin and Yabloko Duma Deputy
Sergei Mitrokhin, who was
at the firm's office when the search took place, said their campaign effort
is now paralyzed because investigators seized essential information and
documents. The officers also took $700,000 in cash. After the search, Yabloko
party leader Grigory Yavlinsky
said officials in the prosecutor's office were "warned" that
they were taking away documents belonging to Yabloko
See also:
State Duma elections
2003
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