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Heleen over de Linden studied Russian language and literature at the University of Amsterdam. During the year 1988 she studied one year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. In 1991 she received her Master’s degree. In the same year she was sworn to the Amsterdam Court as translator Russian language. During her study Russian, Heleen founded the student travel agency Bolsjoj Reizen, which company she developed after her studies into a professional tour operator. She alienated the company in 1997 to a Dutch specialist. Anno 2018 the company still exists. As a result of her study Russian, Heleen over de Linden speaks and reads Russian fluently. In the last decade of the former century Heleen over de Linden resided on a regular basis in Russia. In the year 1998 she lived with her Dutch husband and two children one year in the Russian country side and assisted to set up local companies.

Heleen over de Linden studied Tax Law with the so called civil effect at the University of Amsterdam. At the end of 2004 she obtained her LLM degree. Her thesis she wrote at the well-known Law firm Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam, at that time still located on the Leidseplein. The subject of her thesis was the Yukos criminal case against Khodorkovskiy, based on the assumption of tax evasion.

During her study and directly after having finished her study she worked at the Dutch headquarter of the well-known multinational Deloitte in Amsterdam as a tax consultant in the international tax practice. In the summer of 2005 she worked as an intern at Deloitte Moscow, just in front of the Red Square.

In the year 2006 Heleen over de Linden has been sworn as Attorney-at-Law at the court of Haarlem. During her internship over the period of three years she worked in the general law practise with a focus on litigation in the fields of SME, tax law and family law. When Heleen obtained her so called "internship certificate" she set up her own law firm in the city enter of Amsterdam.

Since 2009 Heleen over de Linden has her own law practise, located in the so called Historical canal belt of Amsterdam. As attorney-at-law she has a general law practice with a focus on Russian and Russian speaking SME clients. As of the year 2014 Heleen specializes in the EU sanctions against Russia, the Crimea and Eastern-Ukraine. Heleen over de Linden assists persons and companies who need a consultation about the do's and don’ts with respect to the EU sanctions.

In September 2015 Heleen started to write her PhD about the sanctions against Russia, Crimea and Eastern-Ukraine. The sceduled ending date is end 2019. A short summary of the research project you can find in the "find more about" section.