After a quiet week, another hint comes from the Khodorkovsky camp that he might run for a seat in the Duma:
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced to nine years in prison for tax evasion and fraud, is contemplating running for parliament, his defense lawyer Yuri Schmidt said Tuesday.
Schmidt said the former Yukos CEO would put forward his candidacy if "supported by people whose opinion really matters to him."
But only a hint, mind you – and not actually a substanitally different hint to the one Khodorkovsky gave us a couple of weeks ago, where he said:
[...] if I receive letters from people whose opinions are important for me, I will agree [to run].
So, should we conclude from this that Khodorkovsky is (a) genuinely agonising over whether he should risk running, (b) having great fun winding up Putin and the international press, or (c) trying (without success so far) to find someone out there to support him?
Beats me.
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