March 31 will mark the one year anniversary of the start of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. When a court trial drags on for more than a year, I need not listen to the hearsay, but rather I have had the “pleasure” of observing one from the inside.

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This was not my first visit to the latest session of the Khamovnichesky Court in the case of the former YUKOS managers. I was amazed that, like a year ago, like half a year ago, like a month ago – there was a multitude of spectators. It is already obvious: interest in the trial, at the very least, has not weakened. And from the discussions in the net one can even say that it has grown: people understand ever more – the trial has obviously been ordered from above, is political, clearly unfair, and the power that has started it up in the first place clearly does not know what to do next.

That is, the repressive convoy-justice «machine» was put in motion long ago. Who will stop it and how – is something probably nobody understands or knows.