Did Medvedev Give Khodorkovsky A Lift To His Trial? THE MEETING SOUNDS LIKE A SCREENWRITER'S DREAM: incarcerated ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, flying across Siberia to the former's trial in Moscow -- on the latter's presidential plane. Strange as it seems, eyewitnesses who saw the plane before takeoff believe it really happened. Khodorkovsky, whose oil company was gutted by the Kremlin after he expressed political aspirations in 2003, has been in a Siberian prison since 2005. On February 19, President Medvedev paid an official visit to Chita, a Siberian city not far from the prison. The next day, Khodorkovsky arrived in Moscow to stand trial. Witnesses say the plane used to transport Khodorkovsky bore the presidential standard along with the logo of the private government airline reserved for top Kremlin officials. There has been no official confirmation from the government that the president gave Khodorkovsky a lift to his trial, but it would be foolish to expect one.
THE MEETING SOUNDS LIKE A SCREENWRITER'S DREAM: incarcerated ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, flying across Siberia to the former's trial in Moscow -- on the latter's presidential plane. Strange as it seems, eyewitnesses who saw the plane before takeoff believe it really happened.
Khodorkovsky, whose oil company was gutted by the Kremlin after he expressed political aspirations in 2003, has been in a Siberian prison since 2005. On February 19, President Medvedev paid an official visit to Chita, a Siberian city not far from the prison. The next day, Khodorkovsky arrived in Moscow to stand trial. Witnesses say the plane used to transport Khodorkovsky bore the presidential standard along with the logo of the private government airline reserved for top Kremlin officials. There has been no official confirmation from the government that the president gave Khodorkovsky a lift to his trial, but it would be foolish to expect one.
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