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Khodorkovsky, Revisited

Khodorkovsky, Revisited

This day marks a decade in Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s imprisonment, a journey all too similar to the hopelessly frigid Siberian settings of Dostoevsky’s stories and Solzhenitsyn’s novels — except in one regard. In his younger years, Khodorkovsky was a corrupt oil tycoon and pragmatic oligarch successfully basking in the Russian government’s economic malaise. It was Khodorkovsky […]

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Will Medvedev Free Khodorkovsky?

Will Medvedev Free Khodorkovsky?

On the one hand, the signs aren’t so good for the ex-oligarch. A new trial begun yesterday could see the former Yukos tycoon convicted for 15 additional years if found guilty of charges that are, according to his lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, “even more fraudulent than the first set.” So why did Medvedev allegedly fly the […]

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