"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.
Now, kind of weird story coming from RFE/RL where Pavel Kuznetsov says Alexei Kudrin did not receive any papers.
http://www.rferl.org/Content/Russias_Finance_Minister_Rejects_Report_Of_US_Subpoena/1615892.html
Say he got one. What happens if he doesn't show up? Can the Russian court do anything to him (not that it would, of course).
Doesn't he have immunity as MinFin and Dep PM?