Hope for Khodorkovsky, and for Russia? Amy Knight Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev standing behind a glass wall in a Moscow courtroom, May 17, 2011 At first glance, it is hard not to conclude that the future looks dire for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the former Yukos executives who have been…
Khodorkovsky, The Prisoner who Unsettles Putin French publication Marianne’s special correspondent in Moscow, Anne Dastakian, comments in detail on Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s second trial. For Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the prosecution suffers from “legal schizophrenia”. Many celebrities, including US President, Barack Obama, support the former head of Yukos. Deported to Siberia and deprived of his oil company, Khodorkovsky,…
Mikhail Khodorkovsky sits in a defendant’s cage in a Moscow courtroom in this June 16, 2004 file photo. In a lengthy interview published in this week’s issue of SPIEGEL, he argues: “I was not a rober baron in the past, just as I’m not a martyr today.” SPIEGEL interview, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 47, the former Russian…