Media and public kept away as oligarch goes on trial in 'shoebox'

Lawyers acting for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed billionaire and Russia's richest man, have discovered that the country's most controversial post-Soviet trial is likely to be held in a cramped courtroom large enough for only a handful of people.

Yuri Schmidt, the oil tycoon's defence counsel, said that the discovery called into question the Kremlin's promise of transparent proceedings.


A supporter of Khodorkovsky
"If it is in such a small courtroom that only a few people can fit in, then there will not be enough space and [the trial] will be a complete insult to justice," he told The Telegraph.

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