Khodorkovsky’s latest “Prison’s People” article has been published in The New Times in Russia, December issue (24.12.2012)

This excerpt tells us about a typical Russian jailhouse;

“…Every morning in our barrack begins with the loud sound of a buzzer and a wild scream.
If you think that a scream at a volume approaching 100 dB can’t have any meaningful substance, you are sorely mistaken. The guy doing the hollering is Roma – the night-duty orderly. He does this with great artifice. The melody being whistled out by an ordinary ring under his direction and the text accompanying it practically never get repeated. Sometimes the reprises come out so well that it becomes hard to get up – because you’re laughing so hard…”

Each personal story is unique, and Roma’s story, described by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is not an exception. But the system of Russian courts grinds these unique individuals down into one mass – “actual human beings as such are less than nothing for our state – merely a medium for writing reports.”

The full Roma’s story can be read on The New Times website (In Russian)