Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Gevorkyan, Natalya

“In my view Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are being transformed in the courtroom from ‘criminals’, as the investigation and prosecution would like to see them, into political figures who are drawing public attention to the absurdity of the proceedings. The result of this trial, with all its publicly reported details and the absurdity of the charges, will be to condemn the Russian judicial system as a whole. If Khodorkovsky and Lebedev can maintain their intellectual advantage to the end the verdict passed on them will be transferred to our country’s judicial system: an acquittal or a conviction”

Natalya Gevorkyan, Gazeta.ru columnist, April 8, 2009