(The following article was written before Mikhail Khodorkovsky had concluded his hunger strike following a successful result. – Editor)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has declared a hunger strike of indefinite duration. About this became known from a declaration by the ex-owner of YUKOS, addressed by him to Chairman of the Supreme Court of the RF Vyacheslav Lebedev. With the help of the hunger strike, Khodorkovsky wants to attract the attention of president Medvedev to violations of the law that representatives of the judicial power are allowing.

I well understand the feelings that Mikhail Borisovich experienced after judge Danilkin’s decision on denial in the satisfaction of a motion on changing the measure of restraint after they had recounted with pomp in the Russian mass information media about innovations lightening the punishment for economic crimes.