Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Piontkovski, Andrei

“The weakest point now in the Kremlin’s defences against demands for the release of Khodorkovsky is the brazen, cynical and stupid lie told by both our leaders [Medvedev and Putin], when they said that a pardon is impossible unless the prisoner is penitent and applies for a pardon”

Andrei Piontkovski, Political Commentator, speaking at the Public Hearings in the Sakharov Centre in Moscow, October 22, 2009