Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Ponomarev, Lev

“We indeed can see a difference in the way the courts respond to Khodorkovsky’s complaints. That was also true of Chita. Some are rejected out of hand, there is a toying with others; some are accepted and some not. For example, the court in Moscow began in quite a tolerant fashion: TV reporters could attend and film proceedings, almost take interviews. Now they have forbidden all that. If we start worrying every time who is going to win, the liberal president or the illiberal prime minister, we shall waste time and neglect our own business. We must move on, we must fight”

Lev Ponomarev, Leader of the For Human Rights movement, Radio Liberty, June 3, 2009