Khodorkovsky: 'There will be regime change in Russia' - BBC News

The former Russian oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has dismissed as "politically motivated" an arrest warrant issued against him over a murder 20 years ago. Russian police accuse the former head of the now bankrupt Yukos oil company of ordering the killing of the mayor of a Siberian town. Mr Khodorkovsky, who now lives in exile in the UK, denies the charges, and said that the decision to issue the arrest warrant meant there was no chance of any compromise with Moscow. In an exclusive BBC interview, he told Richard Galpin that it was clear that President Putin saw him as a threat.

[ASBlueful]

Actually, looking at how Putin rules, it is not that unlikely that Putin invented those things to get rid of Khodorkovsky...

[SuperPradeep]

May be he can win people's faith in ISRAEL not in Russia..

[adamo]

This guy should fear for his life. Ask the last guy who opposed Putin.

[Patrick_K_]

Brace yourself the RT viewers are here

[yugine]

I'll just leave it here.
'Not long into the process, ownership of some of Russia's most valuable resources was auctioned off by oligarch-owned banks under a scheme called "Loans for Shares." Although they were supposedly acting on behalf of the state, the bank auctioneers rigged the process-and in almost every case ended up as the successful bidders. This was how Khodorkovsky got a 78 percent share of ownership in Yukos, worth about $5 billion, for a mere $310 million, and how Boris Berezovsky got Sibneft, another oil giant, worth $3 billion, for about $100 million. [...] [T]he government was generally unable to exercise much control. Since the state was very weak, these "new Russians" paid little or no taxes on their purchases'.