Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Alexeyeva, Lyudmila

“Does not the Khodorkovsky trial offer a model of relations by which business people know what will happen to them if they do not obey the regime? All over the country firms are being raided and people with links to the security services use their powers to seize profitable businesses, taking away what those business men and women were able to develop without the help of the State. We do not have just courts and in this generally unhealthy atmosphere it seems unlikely that the existing courts could be reformed”

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Radio Liberty, December 29, 2009