Below is a video of Robert Amsterdam’s July 15 appearance on Italian news channel Sky TG24, speaking ahead of the visit by Giorgio Napolitano to Russia. He comments that “We ask President Napolitano to engage the Russian President on the Khodorkovsky issue. We confide in Italy and in its’ history made of battles for human rights, so that all cases of political prisoners who are imprisoned in Russia are addressed, the issue of gulags that still exist and of Khodorkovsky that is in prison in Siberia and not in the region of Moscow, close to his family. In Russia there are still massive violations of fundamental rights, such as restrictions on freedom of the press, or the unexplained killings of journalists. We hope that all these issues could be visited during this meeting.” A transcript of a longer interview on the same network follows after the cut.