Zolotukhin

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SERGEI ZOLOTUKHIN, 

Petitioner, No. 04-70945 v.  Agency No.

A71-421-603

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted June 17, 2005—Seattle, Washington

Filed August 3, 2005

Before: Harry Pregerson, Susan P. Graber, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

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COUNSEL

Vicky Dobrin, Dobrin & Han, LLC, Seattle, Washington, for the petitioner.

Aviva L. Poczter and Mark L. Gross, U.S. Department of Jus- tice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent. 10004 ZOLOTUKHIN v. GONZALES

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Sergei Zolotukhin, a native and citizen of Russia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming without opinion the immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and voluntary departure. Zolotukhin also raises several…