If there long as the "second Khodorkovsky case was launched, and that the charges are known, many thought that the trial would never occur. Several arguments for this: one could assume that times had changed, that the enemies of Khodorkovsky in the circles of power had lost their influence, and there was no interest nor political nor economic to keep Khodorkovsky in prison , let alone give him a new sentence. Moreover, the accusations against him seem so absurd from the standpoint of simple logic (how a company executive accused of diverting a sum greater than the turnover of his company?) that one could believe they would never be brought before a court. Finally, the scandal Aleksanian had lifted the veil on the methods used by investigators to obtain evidence against him. In any civilized country, the revelations about the survey methods were sufficient to close the file once and for all. But not in Russia.
fact remains that we do not see very well the reasons for this second trial. Khodorkovsky has long ceased to be a hatred for his fellow citizens, and it is very unlikely that this trial on the facts already past, a lot of interest in the Russian population and is sufficient to channel the growing discontent of the Russian response to the crisis, unemployment and government's negligence.
Anyway a second trial is about to begin, and the Observatory will try to follow him through the French press (Russian and if need be).
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