MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday challenged President Dmitry Medvedev from the dock of a Moscow court to stand by his commitment to keep the judiciary independent of the Kremlin.
The former boss of oil group Yukos, on trial for new charges that could keep him in jail for an additional 22 years, said his fate would send a signal to Russians on whether to trust the court system or to take their grievances onto the streets.
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