Putin’s Confidence Brings Freedom for Khodorkovsky
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – December 23, 2013) The opposition’s lackluster performance in recent regional elections has likely contributed to President Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticleRussian opposition figures differ on Khodorkovskiy’s political prospects
(Interfax – December 22, 2013) Russian opposition politicians and human rights figures have expressed different views on the political future of former head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky and the Tsar: Why Putin’s pardon of his top foe doesn’t tell us...
(Moscow News – themoscownews.com – Anna Arutunyan – December 21, 2013) I don’t know quite how to say this without diminishing the importance of the incomprehensible inner trial that a Russian man...
View ArticleOrdinary Russians React to Khodorkovsky’s Release
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber – December 23, 2013) The announcement of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s release after 10 years of imprisonment has garnered mixed reactions from...
View ArticleRIA Novosti: Nearly Half of Russians Approve Khodorkovsky Pardon
MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) Almost half of Russians support their president’s decision to pardon jailed former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an independent pollster said on Thursday. Levada...
View ArticleInterfax: Comparing Khodorkovsky with Solzhenitsyn is inappropriate – top...
MOSCOW. Dec 24 (Interfax) – Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament, has advised against comparing former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who...
View ArticleWhy the Kremlin released Khodorkovsky
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Georgy Bovt, special to RBTH – December 16, 2013) There are many reasons for the release of Khodorkovsky after 10 years in a Russian prison, some of them known...
View ArticleInterfax: Ombudsman: Khodorkovsky pardon unlikely to have much effect on...
MOSCOW. Dec 23 (Interfax) – The Russian president’s commissioner for entrepreneurs’ rights has argued that President Vladimir Putin’s pardoning former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky last week is...
View ArticleRussia Could Compensate Khodorkovsky for Case Violations
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – December 27, 2013) Russia will pay Mikhail Khodorkovsky a 10,000 euro ($13,700) fine ordered by the European Court for Human Rights, but may try to get the money...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Thinks One Out of Ten Officials Should be Fired
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Delphine d’Amora – December 30, 2013) Former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky has a tough-love prescription for Russian officialdom decimation, in the classical...
View ArticleRussian Ex-Oil Tycoon Khodorkovsky Visits Israel After Release
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Olga Tanas – January 10, 2014) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man before he was jailed in 2003, is visiting Israel after being freed by President Vladimir Putin...
View ArticleDecision Looms in $100 Billion Yukos Lawsuit
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – January 13, 2014) Businessman Leonid Nevzlin said that he would continue a $100 billion legal battle with the Russian government over the assets of defunct oil firm...
View ArticleBusiness Unimpressed by Khodorkovsky Release
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – January 24, 2014) Two international business forums covering Russia this month have appeared oblivious to former Yukos chief Mikhail...
View ArticleLebedev to Walk Free After 10 Years
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Yekaterina Kravtsova – January 24, 2014) The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to reduce the sentence of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Speaks About Time in Jail, Reasons for Release
MOSCOW, January 27 (Kevin O’Flynn for The Moscow News – themoscownews.com) – Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has spoken about his life in jail in detail for the first time in a wide-ranging...
View ArticleInterfax: Lawyers of Lebedev, Khodorkovsky think their clients could be...
(Interfax – January 29, 2014) Former Menatep CEO Platon Lebedev could try to get his confiscated property returned and also receive compensation for moral damages inflicted on him during the criminal...
View ArticleComment on the Economist editorial entitled “The triumph of Vladimir Putin”...
Subject: Comment on the Economist editorial entitled “The triumph of Vladimir Putin” (JRL 2014-#21) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 From: Ben Aris <editor@bne.eu> [Editor, Business New Europe] I have to...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Says ‘No Politics’ Deal Made With Putin
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anna Dolgov – May 2, 2014) Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said his surprise release from prison last December was facilitated by an agreement made with...
View ArticleVIDEO: Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Open Russia and Building Civil Society: A...
The Council on Foreign Relations hosted an event featuring former Russia oil oligarch, and former Russian prison inmate, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. “Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Open Russia and Building Civil...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky expecting large-scale civil war in Russia
(Pravda.ru – October 17, 2014) Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview with the BBC that he was expecting a large-scale civil war in Russia in the future. “What is happening in Ukraine, is...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Speech Aired in St. Pete Hotel Despite Chaos
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – December 8, 2014) It seems St. Petersburg authorities on Sunday did not want a Holiday Inn conference room to show a speech by one of President...
View ArticleRussian Political Opposition Uniting for 2016 Parliamentary Elections
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Peter Spinella – April 3, 2015) Russia’s currently fragmented political opposition – which covers a broad spectrum of ideologies, from the far left to the far right...
View ArticleKremlin Critic Emerges From Coma
(RFE/RL – June 2, 2015) Friends and allies of prominent Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., who mysteriously fell ill with poisoning symptoms in Moscow, say he has regained...
View ArticleAnd now … a murder rap for Khodorkovsky?
(Business New Europe – bne.eu – MOSCOW BLOG: Ben Aris in Moscow – July 2, 2015) On June 30, the spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, made a shocking allegation. He accused...
View ArticleUnlike Stalin’s Show-Trial Victims, Russia’s Political Defendants Don’t Back...
(RFE/RL – Robert Coalson – August 20, 2015) There are, of course, many differences between the infamous show trials of Josef Stalin’s Great Terror and the politically convenient prosecutions of the...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Calls for Civil Disobedience against Unjust Laws and Putin’s...
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, August 27, 2015) Mikhail Khodorkovsky says that Russian citizens are fully entitled not to observe unjust laws imposed not to promote justice but to protect...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH Reuters: “Khodorkovsky says Putin is leading Russia towards...
Reuters covers remarks by former Russian oil tycoon, former prison inmate, political activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky. President Vladimir Putin will survive Western sanctions and lower oil prices but the...
View ArticleBack to the Uncertain Future for Mikhail Khodorkovsky
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Dmitry Elovsky, Mikhail Fishman – December 17, 2015) The mob-style execution of Vladimir Petukhov, mayor of the Siberian oil capital Nefteyugansk, one summer...
View Article[Khodorkovsky:] Who is to blame for what happened to the Russian...
(Institute for Modern Russia – imrussia.org – Mikhail Khodorkovsky – December 17, 2015) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of the Open Russia movement, discusses why the Russian Constitution is “no more...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky to Support Russian Opposition Candidates
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – January 22, 2016) Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia foundation will support opposition candidates at Russia’s upcoming parliamentary elections,...
View ArticleRussian Politicians Ask Khodorkovsky for Endorsement As Elections Near
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anna Dolgov – February 18, 2016) Former oil tycoon turned opposition politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s pro-democracy foundation has received dozens of requests from...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Mikhail Khodorkovsky Is Putin’s Most Powerful Enemy (in Exile)....
… the Open Russia Foundation …. basically represents the brains and money behind the Russian opposition [and recently] held an event at its headquarters … in London. … predictions for Russia’s future...
View ArticleRussia’s top investigator says Khodorkovsky acquired Yukos shares illegally
(Interfax – March 25, 2016) Russia’s Investigations Committee is close to proving that the shareholders of dissolved oil company Yukos acquired their shares unlawfully, spokesman Vladimir Markin has...
View ArticleNEWSLINK AP: “Dutch court quashes $50 billion Yukos shareholders’ award”
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View ArticleRBTH: Can two political émigrés foment a revolution in Russia from abroad?
With half a year remaining before parliamentary elections in Russia, not only the Russian government but also its opponents have intensified their activities. In London two millionaires are open in...
View ArticleHigher School of Economics shrugs off reports on its involvement in new...
MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) – Russia’s Higher School of Economics (HSE) said that it has nothing to do with any drafting of the new Russian constitution allegedly ordered by former Yukos chief Mikhail...
View ArticlePutin’s Election Grip Is So Tight Even His Nemesis Can Take Part
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Henry Meyer, Irina Reznik – August 24, 2016) The last time Vladimir Putin’s political party won national elections, ballot-stuffing allegations sparked the biggest protests...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky’s Group To Support Media Startups
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – September 29, 2016) A pro-democracy group founded by exiled Kremlin critic and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has launched a project to fund online media startups. Open...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Russian Opposition Struggles 2 Years After Nemtsov Killing”– AP
Two years after he was killed near the Kremlin, Boris Nemtsov can still attract crowds of supporters. But his death left in tatters Russia’s opposition movement, which is struggling with infighting and...
View ArticleIf Navalny Takes Power He Could End Up Like Putin, Says Khodorkovsky
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – August 9, 2017) Former tycoon turned opposition politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky has warned Russians against pinning their hopes on Alexei Navalny, saying that if he...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “A Problem Much Bigger Than Putin”– New York Times/ Mikhail...
“More than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the attempt to build a democracy in its place, Russia has once again become an authoritarian state. The same inability to build democratic...
View ArticleRussia’s Media Monitor Moves To Block Websites Of ‘Undesirable’ Organizations
(Article ©2017 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – December 12, 2017 – also appeared at...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “Arms For All? Khodorkovsky Says Russians Need Guns”– RFE/RL/ Timur...
“Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a staunch Kremlin critic who went from Russia’s wealthiest man to its highest-profile inmate, remains upbeat about the country he fled upon his release from...
View ArticleJRL NEWSWATCH: “Washington theaters shine a spotlight on Vladimir Putin”–...
“The Russian president was satirized … in the delirious ‘Putin on Ice (that isn’t the real title …)’ at Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theater. Putin is unnamed but unmistakable in Pulitzer Prize finalist...
View ArticleJRL NEWSWATCH VIDEO: “Russia’s Democracy: What Happens After Putin?”– CFR
“Mikhail Khodorkovsky provides his perspective on the domestic political climate in Russia, prospects for democratic change, and the future of U.S.-Russia relations.” (Council on Foreign Relations –...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky: Putin ‘Doesn’t Believe In Institutions’
(Article text ©2019 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – BERLIN, Oct. 2, 2019 – article text also appeared at...
View ArticleRussia’s Energy Czar, Disliked And Feared, Catches Blame As Oil Prices...
March was the cruelest month for one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's longest-serving and most hawkish confidants[,] Igor Sechin ... head of state oil company Rosneft ...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Marks the Spot: Russia’s Turning Point From Economic Freedom to...
... Khodorkovsky was not the first oligarch harassed by Putin, but this was indeed a turning point. Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia at that point precisely because he cleaned up his oil...
View ArticleThe Week In Russia: The Dangerous Summer
As September elections approach, COVID-19 takes a mounting toll and wildfires burn across huge swaths of the country .... The Kremlin crackdown on dissenters, civil society, and independent media...
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