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The authorities’ exertions made the conference seem far more threatening than what it was: a digital version of the traditional dissident kitchen table, with everyone asking the old familiar questions: Kto vinovat? Chto dyelat’? Who is to blame? What is to be done? Other classics were reprised, too: Is Russia Europe or Asia? How do we enlighten the population? Can we blame Russians for wanting to emigrate? When will the regime collapse?
Activists in Moscow reacted to the Hangout with embarrassment. Maxim Katz, who had been the deputy chair of Navalny’s 2013 mayoral campaign, sent in a question, which Khodorkovsky’s co-host read out loud. “What I see now is a home video recorded on a Web camera with the participation of all the same people that I’ve been seeing for many years, who are saying all the same things,” Katz said. “When are we going to stop whining about our difficult life and the impending collapse, and do something well—for example, a teleconference?”
Khodorkovsky later told me that if he’d seen the same level of chaos and technical incompetence at his old oil com
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Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once h... Read allKhodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't he stay in exile with a coupl... Read allKhodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.
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It is obvious that the political elite of Russia handed Khodorkovsky a big fat gift with Yukos. I suspect they saw him as a hip modern guy that could help Russ
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Who Is Leonid Nevzlin, the Controversial Exiled Kremlin Critic Accused of Ordering Attacks on Navalny Allies?
The company’s success was emblematic of Russia’s rapid economic transformation in the 1990s, but it also made its owners targets for the Kremlin.
In the early 2000s, Yukos became embroiled in legal battles that were widely seen as politically motivated, with President Vladimir Putin’s government accusing the company of large-scale tax evasion.
Nevzlin, who was listed by Forbes in 2004 as having a net worth of more than 1.3 billion euros, fled to Israel in 2003.
The Russian government has repeatedly attempted to extradite him from exile by issuing international arrest warrants.
Russian authorities charged Nevzlin in absentia with a range of serious crimes, which his lawyers said were politically motivated.
He was sentenced in 2008 in absentia to life in prison for ordering four killings of business rivals and officials, including the mayor of the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk, in his time at Yukos.
A Russian court also found him guilt
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