“The court, having heard the opinion of the participants in the process, considers that the motion of the state prosecutor Lakhtin on extending the term of detention of the defendants Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is grounded and subject to satisfaction,” — declared Judge Viktor Danilkin.

Well, who would have doubted… Pity, of course, the nerves of the detainees: they still hold out hope each and every time the term of their detentions nears the expiration date. I know from my own experience that it is hard not to look forward to such dim possibilities.

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In the Khamovnichesky Court at the trial in the so-called YUKOS Case, prosecutor Valery Lakhtin had already hinted that final submissions to extend the detention order were near at hand. He also added that the defendants and the lawyers are consciously dragging out the process. One can understand Lakhtin and the procuratorial company: over a year and a half of the second trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev he has successfully demonstrated once and for all the innocence of the persons sitting in the glass aquarium.