A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the conviction by the Government of Russia of businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev constitutes a politically motivated case of selective arrest and prosecution that flagrantly undermines the rule of law and independence of the judicial system of Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

S. Res. 65 — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the conviction by the Government of Russia of businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev constitutes a politically motivated case of selective arrest and prosecution that flagrantly undermines the rule of law and independence of the judicial system of Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

By Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mr. Cardin, and Mr. McCain), S871 [17FE]

Text, S914 [17FE]

Cosponsors added, S1407 [8MR], S1548 [10MR]