Anton Orek: “Navalny is a stump thief”

“We don’t know how the case will end. Although, formally, Navalny could even get a tenner for this. A year in prison for every thousand cubic meters of stolen timber. Well, the forest is our wealth, we must answer to the full for the timber.

But I suspect that Bastrykin and other Kremlin comrades may greatly regret getting involved with Alexei. When Khodorkovsky was imprisoned, the authorities gave the opposition some kind of spiritual authority. The YUKOS case became a symbol of the era, a common word for the utter ugliness and decay of the state. But Khodorkovsky is a quiet man."