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Nizhny Novgorod
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:'''Scott Horton''' is a partner with [[Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP]], an international law firm with offices in New York and Moscow and affiliated offices in St. Petersburg, [[Nizhny Novgorod]], Kyiv, Tbilisi, Erevan, Baku, Tashkent, Bishkek and Almaty. He founded the firm's practice in the CIS countries and today is responsible for its extensive work throughout the Central Asian and Transcaucasus regions. Mr. Horton has handled some of the largest foreign direct investment in the Caspian region, but his practice also encompasses advisory work for foreign sovereigns (including at various times all five of the Central Asian republics) on legal reform issues, representation of multilateral development banks in secured finance and equity investment projects, and representation of Western natural resource companies in exploration and development projects. At the same time he is active in the firm's exempt organizations practice, representing and advising grant-making organizations. He hold his J.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin and studied law at the Universities of Mainz and Munich in Germany before coming to Austin.
:Mr. Horton has been a lifelong activist in the human rights area, having served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Sergei Kovalev and other leaders of the Russian human rights and democracy movements for over twenty years and having worked with the [[Lawyers Committee for Human Rights]] and the [[International League for Human Rights]], among other organizations. He is currently president of the International League and a director of the Moscow-based [[Andrei Sakharov Foundation]]. Mr. Horton is also an advisor of the [[Open Society Institute]]'s Central Eurasia Project, and a director of the [[International Center for Not-for-Profit Law]], the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]'s [[Center for Preventive Action]] and numerous other NGO organizations.
