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Political Motivations Drove Guilty Verdict of Second Khodorkovsky Case

By Yuriy Vilner

[Olga Khvostunova, Institute of Modern Russia]: "On the last days of December 2010 the guilty verdict in the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil tycoon, was announced at the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow. For the second time the trial and the verdict raised questions not only of the state of country's independent judiciary, but also of Russia's "sovereign" democracy. The answer is quite obvious: they both failed. Many experts agree that the first and the second trials are both symptomatic of what is going on in the Russian political system -- diminishing political freedoms, increasing corruption, controversial legal practices, suppression of opposition and critical media. Others, following

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