Anatoly Kucherena

Anatoly Kucherena
Анатолий Кучерена
Kucherena in 2013
Born
Anatoly Grigorievich Kucherena

(1960-08-23) August 23, 1960 (age 64)
Mîndra, Călărași District, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
OccupationLawyer
Anatoly Kucherena's voice
Kucherena on the Echo of Moscow program, 23 September 2013
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Anatoly Grigorievich Kucherena (Russian: Анатолий Григорьевич Кучерена; born 23 August 1960) is a Russian attorney, public figure, Doctor of Law, and professor. From mid-2013, Kucherena has represented former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's interests in the Russian Federation. Kucherena continues to represent Snowden, pro bono, on an occasional basis.[1] In 2013, according to Izvestia, he was known as a person who spoke in favour of the banning of anonymizer software: advocating the prosecution of its development, distribution and usage by including it in the "malware" software category (a view which contradicts the terminology used in the industry).[2]

In June 2014, American film director Oliver Stone acquired rights to a screen adaptation of Kucherena's novel, Time of the Octopus, the story of fictional American whistleblower Joshua Kold. Threatened by his government and waiting for a decision on his request for Russian asylum, Kold spends three weeks in the transit area of the Moscow airport. Stone said, "Anatoly has written a 'grand inquisitor'-style Russian novel weighing the soul of his fictional whistleblower against the gravity of a 1984 tyranny that has achieved global proportions."[3] The book, the first in a "psychological-political thriller trilogy," was released on 3 March 2015 in Russian and 29 January 2017 in English. The Moscow Times reported that Kucherena said Snowden had received a copy of the book and liked it.[4]

  1. ^ "US whistleblower Snowden works in Russian company, not married yet — lawyer". TASS. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  2. ^ "Силовики предлагают запретить ПО, скрывающее пользователя в Сети" [Law enforcement propose to ban the software concealing user's identity in the Internet]. Izvestia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  3. ^ Kemp, Stuart (June 10, 2014). "Oliver Stone Options Novel by Edward Snowden's Russian Lawyer". The Hollywood Reporter.
  4. ^ "Snowden's Lawyer to Release Book on March 3". 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2024-04-15.