Dear Vladimir Georgievich,

I would like to congratulate you on your release. I am glad that these doors have opened for you; I am glad that you are with your family – my congratulations to them too. Even though we met in August 2010 under the forced circumstances, a meeting with a man of honour is pleasant and is always important. So when I see you (better if I come to see you) 🙂 – we will talk.

Platon Lebedev

Vladimir Malakhovsky, the former CEO of a number of Yukos subsidiaries, whose sentence was reduced earlier this year, was released on 9^th October