Sunday, 5 June 2011

Why Khodorkovsky Matters

Joe Nocera, New York Times
Over the past six months, I’ve written three columns about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch who has been in prison since 2003, charged, tried, convicted — and recently reconvicted — on transparently bogus tax and embezzlement charges.Partly, I keep returning to the subject because his lengthy imprisonment offends my sense of justice; his real crime, after all, was challenging Vladimir Putin, the Russian strongman. More importantly, Khodorkovsky’s fate stands as a powerful illustration of Russia’s biggest problem: the contempt...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/04/why_khodorkovsky_matters_256662.html

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