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Russia accuses Khodorkovsky and other exiled Kremlin critics of conspiring to seize power
Russia's Federal Security Service accuses Khodorkovsky and 22 others of forming a terrorist group and plotting a violent government overthrow, with charges carrying up to life imprisonment.
- Russia's Federal Security Service announced criminal charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other exiled anti-war figures for forming a terrorist group and plotting to overthrow the government.
- The charges include financing terrorist units and opposing the Russian government since the invasion of Ukraine.
- Khodorkovsky denied allegations of financing Ukraine's military or seeking power in Russia, while facing possible life imprisonment under terrorism laws.
- The Russian authorities have opened a case against members of the Anti-War Committee under terrorism laws.
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Businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia and the former head of the Yukos oil giant who now lives in exile in Israel, is on trial in Russia for allegedly founding a “terrorist” organization aimed at overthrowing the Russian government. The FSB, the Russian secret service, announced this on Tuesday, adding that other people including legendary chess player Garry Kasparov and former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov a…
The anti-war committee of Putin's opponent and former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky accuses the regime of violent overturning intentions. The action has to do with the Ukraine war.
Russia: Authorities escalate attacks on activists in exile with “terrorism” charges against Anti-War Committee
Reacting to the launch of criminal proceedings against exiled opposition figures and members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia – a leading umbrella initiative of Russia’s anti-war movement in exile – on terrorism-related charges Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The criminal case against the Anti-War Committee is the Russian authorities’ latest attempt to target activists abroad as we…
Russia Accuses Khodorkovsky, Other Oppositionists Of 'Terror Plot'
Exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky and several other prominent Russian opposition figures have been accused by the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) of creating a "terrorist organization" and of plotting to violently seize power.
Russia accuses Khodorkovsky and other exiled Kremlin critics of conspiring to seize power
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to violently seize power.
The case also involved Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a critic of Putin who emigrated to London and had previously spent ten years in one of the cruelest Siberian prisons for embezzlement.
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