Khodorkovsky & the New Russian Justice

David Remnick, The New Yorker
In 1964, a twenty-three-year-old poet was arrested by the Leningrad K.G.B. and charged with the crime of “malicious parasitism.” His name was Josef Brodsky. One Communist Party newspaper denounced his poetry as “pornographic and anti-Soviet”; another noted archly that he wore “velvet pants.” The authorities permitted him to testify in court, but they soon regretted their decision, and their failure to prevent a brave woman named Frida Vigdorova from taking notes on the proceedings. Vigdorova wrote down this exchange—the...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/12/13/khodorkovsky_amp_the_new_russian_justice_247236.html

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