I've boldly gone...
My blog is currently all bold. I have no idea why. I am sorry for the eye-ache and I am currently in the process of "fixing" it.... OK... actually I'm just swearing at the monitor... fingers crossed it works...
posted by Anonymous @ 11:21 pm
5 Comments:
Bold because you are shouting too loud !
Try to whisper "Why are we waiting" and all will be OK ;-)
Delays are in favor of the defense. I guess Matrosskaya Tishina is an even worse place to wait, so I think they know what they are doing.
By the way I propose you a better song :
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you, dear Mikhail,
Happy birthday to you!
(trying to sing like Marilyn Monroe to Kennedy :-D)
41 years TODAY. In Moscow there are even some mass festivities :-)
Anyway, birthday is birthday :-).
Sure it's better to congratulate, it just means that people care.
Photos from the festivities:
"Grani"Official siteIn the evening there was also a big concert and fireworks
People can send congratulation messages here:
In fact I'm pretty sure he'll get free rather soon. I'm not yet in Moscow but I fell - it's in the air. My forecast is that Platon Lebedev will be released right by the end of the trial and MBK convinced to 1,5 year, so next birthday he'll celebrate with family and friend.
Fingers crossed, of course, as you say, but there are good chances.
IMHO.
English humor, I see. ;-)
No, it's just logical. I guess president is rather annoyed by all that fuss and the rather unexpected fact of MBK's growing popularity. But on the other hand they can't just release them and recognise they are not guilty, because they have already spend a pretty long time in jail. So I think he'll be convinced, but not too heavily.
Officials have already reached their goals, you know - they forced MBK to retreat from Yukos, they took him away from the political scene before the elections and before some rather important economic reforms he does'nt not agree with - so know there is no reason to hold him in jail any longer. Why - they would just look like sadists and they don't need that.
Well in the West everyone sees MBKh as an opponent to Putin, that he has never been. When one reads all his interview before the arrest (immediately before, but long before too) one can see that he was always very respectuous toward the president. I'm sure he won't cause any trouble right now, he is not as stupid. Khodorkovsky is still very young, he can spend 4 or even 8 years waiting and working to deeply change russian political life. In some ways I have the impression - from the personnal letters he writes from prison [not to me :-(, well, not yet:-) ] that he still doesn't really know what he wants and what he will do "after". But he has other things to think about right now.
The problem is - what does Putin want for Russia in the future. Will he change Constitution to remain president longer? Will he try by all means to have "his" man elected after him? Or will it be OK if there are normal opposition parties in front of him...
I think you're right about energetical policy, it was the point n°1 between Yukos and the government, but know the government has obviously won.
And as far as business community is concerned - they all are scared for the rest of their lives.
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