Dear Lev Alexandrovich Ponomarev, Yuri Vladimirovich Samodurov, Alexei Petrovich Kondaurov, Nikolay Karlovich Svanidze, your happy-birthday letters arrived. Thanks to all those who wrote to me. I have thirty telegrams and a bundle of dozens of letters - and if there’s a festive atmosphere in here it’s all thanks solely to you. I will do my best to do everything I can to make your wishes come true. Everything else will have to wait for later.
Thank you for all the warm words that reached me.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky