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Europe, France, Russia
French lawyer Grand d'Esnon leads Alisher Usmanov's fight against EU sanctions

To head his legal battle against European Union sanctions at the European Court of Justice, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov has hired a lawyer who used to advise the late French president Jacques Chirac. [...]

Published on 15.07.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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