Last week we published a translation of a front page article from French newspaper Le Monde regarding the recycling of charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Below is an editorial note which followed the next day, which makes a flattering mention of this blog. The original article can be read here. Russian Justice System Relentlessly Against Mikhail Khodorkovsky Le Monde editorial, July 3, 2008 And here we go again: the new charges have been brought against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Their lawyer Yuri Schmidt has just announced that the new accusations have been formulated against his clients, former owners of the Oil Company Yukos. The General Prosecutor claims that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, embezzled nearly 350 millions tons of oil and laundered the acquired funds. The news was announced on the blog of Robert Amsterdam, one of Khodorkovsky’s international lawyers.