Ex-Yukos head Khodorkovsky once more faces trial

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Russian oil company Yukos, once more faces trial for fraud and money laundering. The daily Gazeta Wybrcza is unhappy that other Russian oligarchs have not also faced such treatment. "Khodorkovsky has been sitting in prison since 2003 because he did not acknowledge the rules established by the Kremlin: society, the economy and the opposition must be silent and renounce their political rights. The powerful guarantee stability and development, and rely on the oil industry in doing so. Khodorkovsky, by contrast, had his people in the regions - not just anybody, but state governors. He profited from enormous tax breaks and in return invested huge sums in the oil industry. Ethically speaking that wasn't all on the up and up, but it was exactly what all the other oligarchs were doing at the time. ... The oil czar was put behind bars, while the other super-rich became the darlings of those in power."

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