The latest spectacle in the “Khodorkovsky trial” theatrical series:

On 3 March of the year 1585, the first-ever theatre in a building purposely built for it opened in Vicenza (Italy). The “Teatro Olimpico” exists to this day and is the oldest theater in the world.

On 3 March of the year 2009, the latest act in the “Khodorkovsky trial” theatrical cycle opened in Moscow (Russia). They did not build a special building – they decided that the building of the Khamovnichesky Court would do just fine.

By the way, there weren’t very many police at all: maybe ten – at one end of 7th Rostovsky alley, and four dozen (half – in an avtozak [paddy wagon] and a bus) – on the other.

A policeman eyeing Grigory Pasko suspiciously from inside an avtozak (Photo by Grigory Pasko)