Today a court in Moscow began reading out the guilty verdict for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, arduously plodding through the paperwork that somehow legalizes the state’s crime against the individual, while making the fantastical charges somehow possible. I know from my own experience that you can tell a guilty verdict from its first few opening paragraphs. There are specific turns of phrase there… In general, it’s not important how long and how Danilkin is going to be reading, what’s important is what might the reaction of the country be to the verdict.

With this question I turned to readers of our community in ЖЖ [the Russian LiveJournal–Trans.]. I shall remind of some opinions.