Today in Moscow, the judge apparently found the former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty in his second trial, according to the reports by Russian news agencies. However, the judge, Victor Danilkin, requested all media to leave the court room before the verdict has been formally announced.

Mikhail Gorbachev voiced his concern about the state of democracy in Russia in his New York Times op-ed, dedicated to the 25-year anniversary of Perestroika: