Monday, December 27, 2010

How to Bury the Lead, Russian Style

Not surprisingly, one-time Slavonic oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky was guilty again in Moscow today. This clears the artefact for him to remain behindhand bars throughout the next Slavonic election wheel (2011-12), and leaves behindhand the indisputable impression, in the words of the NY Times, that the Slavonic righteousness grouping is "readily manipulated by those in power". Never a beatific sign when the reading of your finding is postponed to the hebdomad between Christmas and New Year's. With that in mind, I meet wanted to add The Monkey Cage to the media outlets that are making trusty the finding is indeed reported. To its credit, the White House - which has invested quite a bit in the reset with Russia - was quick to supply a evidence condemning the verdict:

We are deeply afraid that a Slavonic determine today has indicated that for a ordinal time Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will be convicted. We are harassed by the allegations of earnest due impact violations, and what appears to be an opprobrious ingest of the legal grouping for improper ends. The manifest selective covering of the accumulation to these individuals undermines Russia's reputation as a country sworn to deepening the conception of law. The Slavonic polity cannot supply a modern economy without also developing an independent establishment that serves as an helper for furthering economic growth, ensuring coequal communication low the law, and onward official in a predictable and fair way.

Read the rest of the White House evidence by clicking here.


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