In that article, Khodorkovsky urged Russia to transform politically, warning that if it continued on its current path, it would "simply cease to exist".
In the letter, Dr Fox writes: "If it [the SDSR] continues on its current trajectory it is likely to have grave political consequences for us, destroying much of the reputation and capital you, and we, have built up in recent years.
It North Korea continues on its current path, they said, it will face more sanctions and deeper isolation.
The Stockholm Environment Institute calculates that, if China continues on its current path, it would emit almost two-thirds of that budget roughly 450 billion tonnes— on its own.
Two Israeli former PMs have warned that if the country continues on its current path, it will become the successor to apartheid South Africa.
However, if the media circus around the Pistorius trial continues on its current trajectory, it may very well be the case that truly tests whether the sub judice rule has any teeth, or whether it has simply died a natural death in South Africa's constitutional democracy.
If the United States continues on its current path, it may lose its competitive edge in the global scientific marketplace.
If Syria continues on its current path it could find itself an island in its own region, denied trade, tourism, hard currency.
If the government continues on its current path, it is in for a rude awakening sooner than later.
In Congressional testimony given in March, Paige Alexander, USAID's Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for the Middle East, said that if the region continues on its current trajectory, it "will likely face 'absolute' water scarcity by 2030".
