When Dmitry Medvedev was elected as Russia’s president a little more than a year ago, he promised to do away with the “legal nihilism” in Russia. Although he was a close confidante of Vladimir Putin and probably was able to assume presidential office exclusively for that reason, many dared to hope that he would stop the vendetta against Khodorkovsky and all those who had been close to him.
当梅德韦杰夫于一年多前当选为俄罗斯总统时，他许诺要废除俄罗斯的“法律虚无主义”。虽然他是与普京关系密切的知己，这也许是他能当上总统的唯一原因，但那时许多人还敢寄希望于他会停止对霍多尔科夫斯基和所有曾和他关系密切的人们的仇杀。