Kremlin Panel Backs Pardon for Economic Crimes, Khodorkovsky
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The Kremlin’s human rights council called for an amnesty for economic crimes that would apply to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former billionaire head of Yukos Oil Co.
“An amnesty can’t exclude specific individuals,” Tamara Morshchakova, a member of the council, set up in February by President Dmitry Medvedev, told reporters today in Moscow. “It would apply to all people accused of these crimes.”