On Mikhail Khodorkovski arrest

- Russian state agencies have shown a yellow card to the oligarchs. Khodorkovski's example shows the oligarchs that one must live by the law rather than by notions. I am astonished by the dismay that the Yukos case produced among some politicians and mass media in the U.S..This is strange for a country where tax evasion is a most heinous crime. Their argument is that charity redeems all the previous problems with the law, but let us recall that a president - not the Russian one, but President Roosevelt - once said: no donations can make up for the crimes committed by a person in the process of gaining capitals.

Russian Official Calls Yukos Case a Yellow Card to Oligarchs//ITAR-TASS. - 22.11.2003

- I don't foresee any negative effects from the sentence brought against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It did not come as a big surprise to anyone.For me, it would have been unpleasant if the court had justified Khodorkovsky. Then I would have become doubtful about the Prosecutor General's Office.

Mironov Sees no Negative Impact in Khodorkovsky Sentencing//Interfax.-May 31,2005

 

 

 

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