While Russian judges are going to sentence Mikhail Khodorkovski, former owner of the oil company Yukos, guilty of fraud and tax evasion, the American vested interests are preparing to bite Putin heels, because he put in trouble that Jewish friend of them. Senator John McCain has already warned: the trial against Khodorkovski isn’t a normal trial but “a wiggling coup against democracy and capitalism forces, that shakes foundations of the USA-Russia relationship”. Said by a responsible of a State, the USA, that has seen Enron and 9/11 (coup d’état, of a new kind), isn’t bad. But, maybe, it is needed to have a better look at the story of this pure free trade martyr.

Born in 1963, when attending the university at Moscow (graduated in chemistry) Khodorkovsky entered in Young Communists League, youth club of the PCUS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), taking the charge of vice-secretary of the Frunze district: a nice start for a nice …