FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mikhail Khodorkovsky on hunger strike Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Yukos, has commenced a hunger strike in protest against the treatment of jailed former Yukos general counsel and vice president Vasily Alexanyan (“Alexanian”). In a letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, published on his web site on Wednesday and reported by Interfax, Mr. Khodorkovsky declares his support for Mr. Alexanyan following reports that Mr. Alexanyan has been offered medical assistance if he testifies against him: “I am facing an impossible moral choice: admit to crimes I haven’t committed and save the life of a man, but destroy the fate of innocents who will be charged as my accomplices.”