Khodorkovsky Challenges Putin as Opposition Marches
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the one-time oil tycoon who spent a decade in President Vladimir Putin’s prisons, staked a claim to the leadership of Russia’s opposition as it staged its biggest demonstration in years.
Khodorkovsky, 51, living in exile in Switzerland since his release in December, called on supporters to help influence the nation’s 2016 parliamentary elections as he restarted his Open Russia movement. In interviews with European media including France’s Le Monde, Spain’s El Pais and Germany’s Der Spiegel, he made the case that Putin may hasten his own departure.