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Khodorkovsky was punished not because he tried to get into politics, but because in a televised meeting with Putin he claimed that the Russian tax authorities took bribes. Not Putin himself, but Russian tax collectors.c. Khodorkovsky was an oligarch, in fact when he said those things he was the richest of the oligarchs.
Nov 3, 2022 · Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today’s Russia. He’s known the best and the worst of the country. He’s discussed the country’s future with Putin himself, and with fellow inmates in prison. And like many Russians who now live abroad, he longs for the day when he can return to his country; when it’s a free ...
Jan 30, 2023 · “Another exile organization, the Anti-War Conference of the Free Russia Forum organized by the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former political prisoner, has stated that the conflict is not regional, that Putin’s war is not just with Ukraine but with the liberal Western world order.”
Nov 20, 2018 · Khodorkovsky was in the process of using his enormous wealth to buy enough seats in the coming Duma elections that he could change Russian laws regarding ownership of oil in the ground and of pipelines transporting same. In addition he planned to directly challenge Putin and become Russian President.
Apr 25, 2013 · TIL Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former wealthiest person in Russia, was arrested by Putin for allegedly political reasons. The Russian public still considers him more trustworthy as prisoner than Putin himself.
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I think confrontation between Putin-Khodorkovsky happened because Khodorkovsky, ex deputy to Minister of Oil and Gas, and his partner Nevzlin (now sponsors Russian-language RTVi channel with anti-Putin agenda) get their oil actives from Eltsin, and Eltsin chose Putin as his successor and keeper of system, so when Khodorkovsky went against Putin ...
Jan 20, 2023 · ForeignAffairsMag • 5 mo. ago. [SS from the essay by Garry Kasparov, Chair of the Human Rights Foundation, Co-Founder of the Russian Action Committee, and a former world chess champion; and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Co-Founder of the Russian Action Committee and a former political prisoner in Russia] Putin’s effort to restore Russia’s lost ...
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Mar 2, 2022 · In 2014, Khodorkovsky re-launched Open Russia to promote several reforms to Russian civil society, including free and fair elections, political education, protection of journalists and activists, endorsing the rule of law, and ensuring media independence. He has been described by The Economist as "the Kremlin's leading critic-in-exile".
