Mikhail Khodorkovsky press-center

STATEMENTS

Key Articles by Khodorkovsky

Since their arrest and imprisonment, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev have periodically issued statements about the investigation, the charges against them, their trial and treatment in prison, and the state of Russia in general.

October 3, 2008

Conversation of writer Boris Akunin with Mikhail Khodorkovsky

September 22, 2008

'Before they’d have put me in the punishment cell for giving such an interview'

Three Khodorkovsky's interviews for Le Figaro, The Moscow Times and Vedomosti

September 11, 2008

'President Medvedev made the only possible decision'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's interview to The Moscow Times

August 22, 2008

'The oil industry is a thing of the past for me today'

As the Ingodinsky district court in Chita decided whether or not to grant Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s request for parole, he gave a wide-ranging interview to the Vedomosti daily, outlining his views on the present and plans for the future

August 21, 2008

'I have people and good deeds to devote my experience and my efforts to'

Khodorkovsky's statement to the court

Statement by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I have every right to regain my liberty

'Effectively I am being sentenced to a further, lengthy period of detention for no good reason'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks before the Chita court

July 23, 2008

'For the first time I find myself forced to appeal to you'

Platon Lebedev writes to President Medvedev

July 21, 2008

Platon Lebedev to donate Strasbourg compensation to charity

On 2 June a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights instructing the Russian authorities to pay Lebedev 10,000 euros came into force

July 16, 2008

“The accusation is absurd and therefore incapable of proof”

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s letter to the Chita Region Court

July 16, 2008

“The investigators are falsifying the evidence”

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s letter to the Ingodinsky district court in Chita

May 18, 2008

'I’m constantly reminded that I’m in jail until further notice'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky answers questions posed by The Sunday Times.

February 11, 2008

An announcement by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

February 7, 2008

Interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky

conducted by Neil Buckley, Financial Times, in the Chita Region Court.

February 1, 2008

Platon Lebedev’s statement

January 31, 2008

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's statement

Mikhail Khodorkovsky declares hunger strike in support of Vasily Aleksanyan

Khodorkovsky's declaration addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

January 24, 2008

'It’s all some crazy nightmare'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the treatment of Vasily Aleksanyan and other imprisoned Yukos employees.

December 18, 2007

'All is not in vain'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky thanks everyone who has written to him and those who sent words of support as half his sentence expired.

December 18, 2007

'For every single signature, thank you'

Mikhail Khodorkovsky responds to the Declaration by human rights activists, since signed by hundreds of internet users.