The manoeuvre was vintage Putin. After answering journalists' questions for four hours and five minutes in an annual press conference – which had already included a question about Mikhail Khodorkovsky – the Russian president chose to slip the main news into a casual comment to a group of journalists afterwards. Russia's most famous political prisoner, and arguably one of the most famous in the world, will be pardoned after ten years in jail "in the shortest time". Read more | 
