Tatiana Yankelevich, the daughter of Elena Bonner (Andrei Sakharov’s widow) and director of the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Center at Harvard University, has published an op/ed today with the McClatchy-Tribune News Service calling up Condoleezza Rice to act upon two recent European court decisions in favor of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev, and Yukos to pressure Russia for their release. She writes: “Exhibiting a little backbone at this important juncture would show Putin that both the EU and the United States are more than happy to do the business with an emerging democratic Russia, but are wary of strengthening ties with a Russia where the rule of law seems to be slipping once again behind an iron curtain of authoritarianism.”