Russia’s Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin just got served during a visit to Washington D.C. with a Federal Court subpoena to testify in the trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Russia.  This story was broke by Reuters:

“On April 24, an unidentified person handed over some papers to
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Kudrin had no
understanding about the content of the papers and immediately handed
them over to one of his aides,” Kuznetsov said in the statement, which
was written in Russian.

“As was established later, the papers were a notification, issued by
the District of Columbia Federal Court, to testify in the criminal case
against (ex-YUKOS CEO) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which is being heard in a
Russian court.”

Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio station reported earlier that the
subpoena was related to a lawsuit by YUKOS minority shareholders
against the Russian Federation.

Kuznetsov’s statement said the subpoena had been prepared by
Khodorkovsky’s lawyers but did not say whether it was related to a
shareholder lawsuit. (…)

Television footage from international Russian-language channel RTVi
showed a man in suit and sunglasses, identified by the reporter as
court marshal David Felter, handing over a folded paper to Kudrin
outside a Washington thinktank.

In the footage, Kudrin accepted the paper. Kudrin, who is taking
part in the International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting in Washington,
was not available for comments on Friday or Saturday.

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