Statement Regarding Leonid Nevzlin's interviews

In reply to the requests to comment on Leonid Nevzlin’s recent public statements that I get from journalists through my lawyers, I would like to say the following:

In a free society anyone has the right to express his opinion and thus I will not comment on my friend’s and former partner’s opinion of myself, albeit I will not conceal my surprise. I do not want to become a cause of confrontation in society and I will always personally express my own opinion as, despite the special circumstances of my present situation, I am forming my position on the most important questions of Russia’s development on my own and deliver my opinion to the public as well as the mass media.

I do not plead guilty and I intend to get my freedom within the law, at the same time I ask my friends and enemies, in Russia and abroad, not to turn me into a banner of political and quasi-political projects with whose content I disagree.