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The ex-head of the "Yukos" Mikhail Khodorkovsky handed over the defendant in the Pussy Riot case Ekaterina Samutsevich, who was 30 years old on Thursday. "Dear Ekaterina, I congratulate you on your birthday. I wish you health and good luck," the letter of Khodorkovsky, published on the website of his press center, says.

“I know from my experience: although it is very difficult for you now, if not tougher, but the support of millions of people cheers up, gives strength and ultimately helps to survive. You and your friends are supported by many and many in different countries of the world, but above all - in Russia,” Khodorkovsky writes.

"The Pussy Riot case has highlighted many" branded "vices of the current government that prevents the whole Russian society from living normally. Double standards in all, cowardly, dependent judges - alas, you have to experience all this" on your own skin. "I want to hope that your prison experience will end soon, which are asserted at your expense, tolerate defeat," the saying says. " In a letter to the ex-head of "Yukos". In conclusion, he wishes Samutsevich and her colleagues in the group "to be not only much smarter, but also much kinder" than their persecutors.

On Monday, Khodorkovsky said that the Pussy Riot process. This process "can be called the court only in the sense in which it was used by medieval inquisitors," the article of Khodorkovsky, published on the website of its press center, says.

Khodorkovsky, who was judged in the Khamovnichesky court in 2009-10, believes that torture and Ekaterina Samutsevich are deliberately applied to Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. The current schedule of court hearings implies the lack of normal sleep and nutrition, daily searches and many hours of expectation in the stuffy "glass" of pre -trial detention center. Being in the Aquarium, it is impossible to participate normally in the trial, there is even nowhere to put a notebook, Khodorkovsky testifies. He notes that this "aquarium" was built specifically for him and Plato Lebedev.

“I don’t know how the girls can stand it,” Khodorkovsky writes. “If the restriction in familiarizing yourself with the case and extension of the arrest is the usual lawlessness, then the 11-hour court hearing without a normal break, even for lunch, looks like the execution of the order to finish the judicial investigation, or maybe the debate until the end of the Olympiad, while the world media is busy with others and our shame does not sound so loud,” the ex-head of “Yukos” believes.

“I urge all the thinking, educated and just good and kind people to send the words of hope to girls. Your support - the support of each person - is very important for those who, by the will of unkind forces, were imprisoned,” Khodorkovsky concludes.