Current:Home > ScamsRussia puts exiled tycoon and opposition leader Khodorkovsky on wanted list for war comments -ProfitClass
Russia puts exiled tycoon and opposition leader Khodorkovsky on wanted list for war comments
View
Date:2025-04-19 15:40:14
Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs put exiled Russian tycoon and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky on its wanted list Tuesday, accusing him of spreading false information about the Russian army, Russian state news agency Tass said. The charge carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, Tass said.
A criminal case was opened against Khodorkovsky in September regarding comments he made online about payments for Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine, Tass said.
Khodorkovsky already spent a decade in prison in Russia on charges widely seen as political revenge for challenging President Vladimir Putin’s rule in the early 2000s. He now lives in London and has frequently criticized Putin’s war in Ukraine on his social media accounts.
In December, Khodorkovsky said Russia is a “fully-fledged totalitarian dictatorship” and that he wants to “fight for a Russia governed by the rule of law and political pluralism.”
Khodorkovsky was previously put on Russia’s wanted list in 2015 after Russian authorities accused him of involvement in the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor, accusations which he dismissed as a sham.
Khodorkovsky was released from jail in 2013 after being pardoned by Putin, who later said Khodorkovsky had told him he would not engage in politics. In December, Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused Khodorkovsky of not keeping up his end of the deal shortly after a Moscow court imposed a fine on the exiled tycoon for administrative violations.
The law against discrediting the Russian army was introduced after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has repeatedly been used by Russia’s courts to jail and silence Putin’s critics. In November, a court in St. Petersburg jailed Sasha Skochilenko, an artist and musician, for seven years for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages.
veryGood! (54917)
Related
- Scoot flight from Singapore to Wuhan turns back after 'technical issue' detected
- Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon
- Parkinson's Threatened To Tear Michael J. Fox Down, But He Keeps On Getting Up
- Overstock.com wins auction for Bed Bath and Beyond's assets
- Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
- Will China and the US Become Climate Partners Again?
- Facing cancer? Here's when to consider experimental therapies, and when not to
- New report on Justice Samuel Alito's travel with GOP donor draws more scrutiny of Supreme Court ethics
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- How Boulder Taxed its Way to a Climate-Friendlier Future
Ranking
- Macy's says employee who allegedly hid $150 million in expenses had no major 'impact'
- Parkinson's Threatened To Tear Michael J. Fox Down, But He Keeps On Getting Up
- Once 'paradise,' parched Colorado valley grapples with arsenic in water
- U.S. Military Precariously Unprepared for Climate Threats, War College & Retired Brass Warn
- Toyota to invest $922 million to build a new paint facility at its Kentucky complex
- Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon
- Study Links Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure to Hospitalizations for Growing List of Health Problems
- YouTube star Hank Green shares cancer diagnosis
Recommendation
Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
North Carolina's governor vetoed a 12-week abortion ban, setting up an override fight
Avoid mailing your checks, experts warn. Here's what's going on with the USPS.
Psychedelic freedom with Tonya Mosley; plus, 'Monica' and ambiguous apologies
Meet the volunteers risking their lives to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Haiti
Carrie Actress Samantha Weinstein Dead at 28 After Cancer Battle
Exxon Reports on Climate Risk and Sees Almost None
Would Ryan Seacrest Like to Be a Dad One Day? He Says…