R.O. Blechman: Russia's Dancing Prisoner

by R.O. Blechman [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Mikhael Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, now a prisoner in a Siberian prison camp, has been sent to an isolation ward for having written to a magazine discussing Russian corruption. He was previously sent to an isolation ward for having walked in the exercise yard without having clasped his hands behind his back.