Katrina Lantos Swett: Can Enlightenment Come to Russia?
Writing in the Huffington Post, Katrina Lantos Swett, President and CEO of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, discusses the trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Sergei Magnitsky.
Lantos Swett notes that Khodorkovsky's tail began in 2003 when the Kremlin began targeting Khodorkovsky when he applied Western standards to his business practices and "continues today as the most high profile example of Russian judicial corruption".
She concludes that it is her "greatest hope that the people of Russia see these two tales come to an honorable end" and "as the refreshing spring winds of reform blow across Red Square, there is renewed hope that this courageous man may one day breathe the air of freedom outside prison walls".
A video from the Lantos Foundation on Khodorkovsky below: