“The Kremlin tried to completely isolate me from the country and people, moreover, to destroy me physically. Thus, today’s government has once again proven that it is not ready for an open and honest dispute with me and, in general, for a direct conversation with the real opposition,” says a statement published today on the website of the press center of the ex-head of YUKOS. One can only hope that the metaphorical meaning of Khodorkovsky’s words about physical elimination is not transformed into a literal one. Anything can happen in a colony.