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A man holds a makeshift poster with a portrait of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ...

3rd Nov 2005, 13:04 GMT

(AP) - A man holds a makeshift poster with a portrait of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed billionaire in front of the National Bolshevik Party activists gathering near the ex-KGB headquarters Sunday to commemorate victims of Soviet-era political repression Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. More than 20 million people are believed to have suffered in political purges between the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1953. More than half of them died. Political repression continued after Stalin's death but on a lesser scale. The writing at the bottem of the sign reads: ' Long live Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev (Khodorkovsky's business partner) and other political prisoners! '(AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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