Contents tagged with Khodorkovsky
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Media: New Russian private military company may be behind killing of Russian journalists in Central Africa
The highly publicized murder of Russian investigative journalists in the Central African Republic may be directly connected to the recently founded Patriot private military company (PMC) which operates in the country,reported the Dozhd TV channel, citing its own sources in the Russian Defense Ministry, a mercenary from the Patriot PMC, and an veteran intelligence officer acquainted with a Patriot fighter.
All of the sources believe that the murder was motivated by the research which Orkhan …
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Investigative project 'Dossier Center' of Russian fugitive oligarch Khodorkovsky picks up speed
Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been collecting information in order to expose corrupt Russians. In the last three months, a number of prominent Russian citizens have noticed that their secrets have been leaked online, Voice of America reports.
This was the case with an official from the Russian Interior Ministry, whose electronic correspondence was published online in April. This month, the Guardian published details on a former senior Kremlin official’s investments in the US energy …
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Khodorkovsky claims Putin is involved in Skripal poisoning
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oppositionist who lives in Switzerland said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for the poisoning of former British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. "Putin ordered this done. That or he lost control of the special services, which is also likely," Khodorkovsky said on Tuesday, March 13, on German public-service television channel ZDF.
Former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious in Salisbury. England …
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Khodorkovsky congratulating Putin on his birthday wished him ‘to separate himself from Russia’
In an interview with TV Rain (Dozhd), founder of Open Russia political initiative Khodorkovsky said he was happy to congratulate Putin on his 65th birthday. "If Vladimir Vladimirovich found the strength to separate himself from the country (from the point of view of its management), then I think our country would finally see some prospects for the future, as would Putin himself. I really wish this for him," Khodorkovsky said.
Khodorkovsky recalled that he also had congratulated the President …
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Khodorkovsky: Putin is leading Russia towards stagnation and collapse
President Vladimir Putin will survive Western sanctions as well as falling oil prices, but the Kremlin chief has brought such stagnation that Russia could eventually collapse, the former tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday.Russia's richest man, who was arrested in 2003, after quarreling with Putin and released in 2013, told Reuters that Putin could indeed survive oil prices of $45 per barrel, but the longer he stays in power, the greater risks will be for Russia.He said that Putin, …