Mikhail Khodorkovsky predicted the future: “Falsified pseudo-evidence, testimony from intimidated or deceived false witnesses and a quick guilty verdict,” this is how the ex-head of the Yukos oil company described the impending trial,” reports Lenta.Ru. His ill-wishers “are only aggravating their situation,” “with this unfortunate" Khodorkovsky advised to leave power and hold fair elections in which "a person who has nothing in common with the gigantic machine of corruption that has shackled Russia hand and foot" will win.