“Peter probably thought I should bring a toothbrush,” Okhotin said. “It’s all so surreal.”
Susan Clark said that as long as the trial went on and Okhotin was kept in Russia, prayer would continue for Okhotin’s safe release from the country.
“We just trust that God would work,” she said. “Our trust has to be in God, not in people.”
For now, Okhotin and those close to him said they were relieved that the first part of the trial was over.
“Today was good,” said Okhotin’s mother, Nadezhda, on Wednesday afternoon. “Next time, we’ll see.”
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—Staff writer Anne K. Kofol can be reached at kofol@fas.harvard.edu.
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