Judge Khodorkovsky will plead with his press secretary.

Vassiliev says that was not going to blame Danilkin a crime, and human rights activists are asked to check the General Prosecutor's Office spokesman, and a criminal investigation.

Hamovnicheskogo President Viktor Danilkin court in Moscow on Wednesday for the first time personally commented on the interview with his press secretary Natalya Vasilyeva, saying that the sentence of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, was imposed Danilkin Moscow City Court. In the near future, the judge did not intend to initiate criminal prosecution Vasilyeva, the issue of her dismissal is also not worth it.

«Now I will not pursue its prosecution. Before the test I have taken away a sentence of cassation me any action against it will not be accepted ", - said Danilkin RIA Novosti.

sentence in the second case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was announced on Dec. 30, 2010. Protecting business immediately announced its intention to appeal to the appeal, but while there served only a short complaint and to expand their defense was not enough copies of court records, which are still preparing Khamovnichesky court. Thus, even the date of hearing of the appeal of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev had not yet been set.

«Interfax Danilkin confirmed that believes the words of his press secretary" slander. " On Monday, immediately after the publication of the interview, the agency has already distributed these words of the judges, but later, "Vedomosti" newspaper found that they had told them the Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usacheva.

«I consider performance Vasilyeva as slander. She accused me of committing a serious crime, "- said Danilkin agencies on Wednesday.

The judge said he "never expected that she would accuse me of committing a serious crime." The question of resignation from the court Vasilyeva not worth it, said Danilkin, but in his opinion, "Following the statements, it will be hard to continue to work in a team trial." "She can write a letter of resignation on their own or continue to work" - he added.

In an interview to Gazeta.ru Vasilyev said that initially Danilkin, sentenced Khodorkovsky and Lebedev to 14 years in prison, wrote a sentence on their own, but later "got another sentence, which must was read out. The fact that the sentence was not written by Danilkin, confirmed that there was a lot of grammatical errors that were later ruled secretaries Hamovnicheskogo court. "The fact that the verdict was brought from Moscow City Court, I absolutely know for sure. And the fact that this sentence was written by the judges of appeal in criminal cases, that is, the Moscow City Court - this is obvious, "- said Vasilyeva.

Wednesday in response to the criticisms head Vasiliev explained that "at all to want to blame Danilkin of crimes, and would facilitate his soul and to some extent."

«Danilkin - decent, good man, but were forced to act under pressure" - said Vasilyev "Gazeta.ru.

explained to Gazeta.ru Pavel Chikov, head of the human rights organization "Agora", accepting the defense Vasilyeva, Article 129 of the Criminal Code (slander) are not in all cases require personal statements of the victim, in some cases criminal proceedings may be initiated by law enforcement agencies simply on the fact of the spread of defamatory information, and the man of whom it was said, was injured. "Formally, the victim's consent to the institution of proceedings is not required, but in this case, I think, without his consent, nothing will be done" - says the Pins.

Wednesday Vasilieva, it became known that the unknown began to gather information about her husband: requested information about him in the criminal investigation police in Moscow, where he worked until April 2010 and then retired to their own. In addition, two men in civilian clothes came home to her parents of her husband to find out where he lives Vasiliev. At the very Vasilyeva impression that it wants to exert pressure, and why "are collecting information on the very closest circle."

eve of the Russian human rights activists appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office a statement, asking to verify the statements Vasileva. Statement of crime officers on allegations of pressure on the court, addressed to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, signed by the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, head of the movement "For human rights" Lev Ponomarev, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, director of the Sova Alexander Verkhovsky, and director of the Institute of Human Rights Valentin Gefter. On Wednesday, this appeal has joined the famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky.

defenders pay attention to Gulls of the fact that in an interview reported on the crime, "under art. 294 Part 3 of the Criminal Code, as well as a violation of the principle of judicial independence and secrecy of the deliberations room. The authors of the request to check the words Vasilyeva and in the case of all or part of their evidence "to initiate a criminal investigation into the pressure on the court (in Part 3. 294 of the Criminal Code) and apply to the Moscow City Court to abolish the sentence of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev.

the prosecutor's office on Wednesday were unable to tell whether the treatment received defenders and will be tested on the fact of the interview Vasilyeva, asking to send a written request (a request was sent to "Gazetoy.Ru" by fact). Press secretary of Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva declined to say to Gazeta.ru whether Moscow City Court to inspect the words Vasilyeva.