“leave the country and try to bargain from a position of freedom. We should take our money out and start a new business and a new life.”
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus, during the Sovi…
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business · Russian businessman (born 1963) · entrepreneur · businessperson · philanthropist · politician · journalist · Russian oligarch · chemist · opinion journalist · also Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, Khodorkovsky
Born 26 June 1963 · Q152503
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2026· 13 entries
“Let me go home, take a shower, get some sleep, and we”
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Published video “Путин испугался Яблока | Бензин опять пропал | Куда исчезли деньги россиян”.
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Published video “Почему не допускают до выборов?”.
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Published video “Роль Яблока на выборах | Ликвидация генералов | Путин не доволен генштабом”.
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Published video “Кого мобилизуют в первую очередь?”.
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Published video “Тайная мобилизация уже идет: облавы на улицах и нехватка солдат”.
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Published video “Без мобилизации Путин не сможет воевать”.
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Published video “Путин и Дуров: бандитский торг | Wildberries: конец? | Что будет с бензином?”.
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Published video “Путин заставил терпеть всю страну”.
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Published video “Страх перед бунтом: почему власть умоляет россиян «не вибрировать»?”.
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Published video “Власти закроют границы | Что будет при мобилизации? | Россию ждут удары по энергетик”.
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Khodorkovsky was selected to be a participant in the PACE Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces
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2020· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim “"In a letter to me, he [Khodorkovsky] pleaded [guilty] and asked to release him before his prison term ended because his mom was ill and died, and I did that, I pardoned him."” Likely False.
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2018· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““Khodorkovsky's puppets [Novaya Gazeta] are fulfilling an order from the West, trying to sabotage Russia's defense industry. But that is not the same as writing fake news about ‘hundreds of dead‘ from the non-existent ‘PMC [private military company] Wagner’.”” False.
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2017· 1 entry
Won Hayek Medal (2017).
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2014· 1 entry
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 en
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Lech Wałęsa Award (2013).
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“retribution for financing political parties that opposed Putin”
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2012· 1 entry
Recalled meeting Khodorkovsky in 2002, "when he met with a group of young authors to try out what would become his stump speech as he traveled the country, urging the creation of a new kind of economy in Russia, one base
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2011· 1 entry
Kuchma admitted that he had been told to attack Khodorkovsky "by unknown persons who had come to the prison colony and beaten and threatened him
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2010· 2 entries
“Russia must make a historic choice. Either we turn back from the dead end toward which we have been heading in recent years – and we do it soon – or else we continue in this direction and Russia in its current form simply ceases to exist.”
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Told The Times:"It is the Singapore model, it is a term that people understand in Russia these days
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2008· 2 entries
Against the release of documents to the Russian authorities, that tied him and Yukos, the largest Russian oil company at the time, to prominent banks and financial institutions
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“Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential elections is not simply the latest change of power in one individual country, albeit a superpower. We are standing on the threshold of a change in the paradigm of world development. The era whose foundations were laid by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher three decades ago is ending. Unconditionally including myself in that part of society that has liberal views, I see: ahead – is a Turn to the Left.”
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2005· 1 entry
To six and a half years' imprisonment for tax fraud, saw her application for early release turned down in October 2008, even though she had served half of her sentence, had expressed "remorse" and was seven months pregna
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2004· 1 entry
Forbes placed him 16th on its list of the world's wealthiest people, with a fortune estimated at $16 billion
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2003· 3 entries
Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires
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Khodorkovsky's shares in Yukos passed to Jacob Rothschild under a deal that they had concluded prior to Khodorkovsky's arrest
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Yukos pledged $100 million over 10 years to the Russian State Humanities University, the best liberal-arts school in the country—the first time a private company had contributed a significant amount of money to a Russian
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2001· 1 entry
Khodorkovsky founded Open Russia, a reform-minded organization intending to "build and strengthen civil society" in the country
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1996· 1 entry
Menatep acquired a major Russian oil producer, Yukos, which had debts exceeding $3
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1995· 2 entries
At the suggestion of Boris Berezovsky, comprising some of the most valuable assets of a state-owned oil company
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Khodorkovsky was poised to take advantage of that too
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1994· 2 entries
Was the director of an online internet bank known as the European Union Bank based in Antigua after which it collapsed
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While chairman of Menatep, he "created an organized group of individuals with the intention of taking control of the shares in Russian companies during the privatisation process through deceit
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1992· 1 entry
Khodorkovsky was appointed chairman of the Investment Promotion Fund of the fuel and power industry
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1989· 1 entry
Became chairman of the Board of Bank Menatep, which he founded
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1987· 1 entry
Khodorkovsky and his partners opened a Center for Scientific and Technical Creativity of the Youth
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1986· 2 entries
Met an 18-year-old, Inna, a student at the Mendeleev Institute who was a colleague of Khodorkovsky's at the Komsomol organization
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Khodorkovsky began to work full-time for the Komsomol, which was a typical way of entering upon a Soviet political career
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-06-26.
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