MEDIA COVERAGE
25 September 2001

Article in The MoscowNews on Russian-American Business Councilcase

Dmitry Afanasyev, a member of the board of the Russian-American Council for Business Cooperation and a lawyer with EPAM law firm, believes that Russia stands to gain in economic terms if it takes part in a worldwide antiterrorist operation...

3 October 1999

Article in The Financial Times on VSMPO-Avisma Titanium Case

Avisma lawyers (Berezniki Titanium-Magnesium Producing Plant),who initiated legal procedure in the USA against the well known entrepreneur K.Dart, suspect him of illegal transferring the yields from exporting titanium through the banks of New York...

1 March 1992

Article in "The AmericanLawyer" on international kidnapping case

When Russian lawyer Dimitry Afanasiev, 23, came to the U.S. in 1990 to earn a master's of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he never dreamed that two years later he would be working with the FBI and Russia's Agency of Federal Security to spring a couple from the clutches of Russian extortionists...

3 February 1992

Article in "The National Law Journal" on international kidnapping case

That's what a 23-year-old Russian associate at Philadelphia's Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen was able to tap when called upon to help free an Australian couple kidnapped on Jan. 8 in Moscow by disgruntled business associates...

20 January 1992

Article in "The Herald Sun" on international kidnapping case

A Melbourne businessman and his wife have survived a week-long kidnap ordeal in Moscow in an amazing rescue tale involving international spy organisations...

20 January 1992

Article in "The Herald Sun" on international kidnapping case

A Melbourne couple being held hostage in Russia were freed after the FBI tricked the kidnappers into leaving their phone number on an answering machine. The number was passed to Russian police, who swooped on the hideout...