During my last visit to the Khodorkovsky trial courtroom, I had the opportunity to stop the procurators Kovalikhina and Shokhin outside on the staircase with a question: “Do the procurators give interviews?” Shokhin stopped short in surprise. Kovalikhina, continuing to move, replied: “They do. After the verdict.“

Well, at least that. Before the verdict, they, apparently, have nothing to say. So much nothing that, besides the open loutishness of the procurator Lakhtin, nobody, it would seem, is expecting anything from them in the trial any more.

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On 7 April, the court day began, as usual. True, there were more visitors than usual, but fewer than on the 6th – the first day of the reading out of testimony by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Bearing witness on numerous occasions about how a cohesive public goes to the trial in the capacity of observers was the behavior of one of the bailiffs: he was knitting his brows every possible way, admonishing, threatening… He didn’t like it that the public was reacting in a lively way to the loutishness of the procurator Lakhtin.