One of the participants in the conference on «The new agenda of the democratic movement» that took place recently in St. Petersburg was the well-known lawyer Yuri Markovich Schmidt. Our Russia correspondent, Grigory Pasko, who was present at the event and has already filed several reports from it, took advantage of the opportunity to get another exclusive interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s defense attorney. Yuri Schmidt: “Medvedev needs to be given a chance…” Interview by Grigory Pasko, journalist Yuri Schmidt (photo by Grigory Pasko)