8 years ago, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested

In October 2003, the head of the company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was taken under arrest at the Novosibirsk Airport Tolmachevo, he was charged with theft of property and tax failure. At this point, the friend and partner of Khodorkovsky, the head of the Menatep group Platon Lebedev was in jail for the same accusations for 3.5 months. On May 31, 2005, the Meshchansky court of Moscow found Khodorkovsky and Lebedev guilty of fraud, tax evasion, assignment of property under several articles of the Criminal Code and sentenced them to 9 years in prison with a sentence in a general regime colony. In September, the Moscow City Court reduced the term to 8 years and if it were not for the second process, today Mikhail Khodorkovsky could be released.

In October 2007, on the fourth anniversary of the arrest, The New Times published an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky Marina Filippovo

In November 2010, when the second process in the Yukos case was nearing completion, Marina Filippovna visited the New Times with her husband Boris Moiseevich

On the eighth anniversary of the arrest, read the new text of The New Times Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Marina Filippovna- press center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: "I have not cryed for 8 years"