Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil's advocate? II

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by none other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was introduced by liberal Lithuanian thinker Leonidas Donskis who had taken great interest in supporting the prisoner during his term as a member of the European Parliament and had even received Khodorkovsky's thank-you letter from prison. The prisoner had written he was touched by Donskis' belief that he was fated for an important role in the history and politics of Russia.