New Khodorkovsky Trial Presents Test for Medvedev (Bloomberg)

“In this trial we’re dealing with a president who has attacked the very legal nihilism that we identified in the first trial,” Robert Amsterdam said in London today in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Given that public stand of the Russian president, he has to be seen, and the government has to be seen, to comport with certain of the basics, at least, of what would appear to be fair process.”