Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Former Yukos oil company CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks on while standing behind the defendant glass cage in a courtroom, in Moscow, on November 1, 2010. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, who is already serving an eight-year prison sentence on fraud and tax evasion charges, is facing new charges of embezzlement and money laundering.
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This tactic was already tried on Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev ... They were denied early release precisely on the basis of reprimands issued for minor offenses that were probably made up, too.
Pussy Riot is really very much like Mikhail Khodorkovsky
From 1998 to 2001, Spirichev, together with accomplices and under the guidance of Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev , formalized documents containing false information on the activity of fictitious companies dependent on YukosMore quotes »
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Russian president order Khodorkovsky case review
-- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the country's prosecutor-general to review the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former oil tycoon whose imprisonment was widely viewed as Kremlin punishment for his political ambitions.The announcement Read more »
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Russia's Rich Sponsor Opposition Activism,This Time Officially
Anti-Putin activism in Russia drags more and more influential backers on its side, amid unfavourable – and even repressive, as in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – judiciary practice towards the infidels of the establishment. Lebedev got to the so-calle from Forbes Read more »
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Even an Oil Company Can't Thrive in Russia
Russia's leaders have unveiled a new government that is notable in the absence of one prominent figure: Igor Sechin, the dark lord responsible for dismantling the oil empire of oligarch-turned-prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. . . more ›› According to a rec from Real Clear Energy Read more »
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Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky urges David Cameron to confront Vladimir Putin over democracy, ban Russian officials from Olympics
"If he is willing, there is much that Putin can do to push Russian society down the road to democracy and reform," said Mr Khodorkovsky, 48, who is behind bars at a penal colony in Karelia region in northwest Russia. "But surrounding himself by 'yes men' from The Telegraph Read more »
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Putin's Dark Lord Keeps Power in Oil Patch
Russia's leaders have unveiled a new government that is notable in the absence of one prominent figure: Igor Sechin, the dark lord responsible for dismantling the oil empire of oligarch-turned-prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Sadly, Sechin's departure does from Bloomberg.com Read more »
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Oslo Journal, Part VI
His son, Pavel, is in his mid-twenties, I believe. He has spent much of his life campaigning for his father, and for a different kind of Russia. Surely, he never intended to spend his life this way. Funny, what happens to people. Editor’s Note: The Oslo from National Review Online Read more »
