Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia’s most famous political dissidents and one of the Kremlin’s most prominent critics, has predicted in an interview with Russian weekly newspaper Sobesednik that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s time at the helm of the country will come to an end by 2019.
Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s wealthiest man, amassing around $15 billion according to Forbes as head of energy giant Yukos in the early 2000s, was famously imprisoned for a decade on fraud charges after publicly clashing with Putin on several occasions. In 2011, Amnesty International declared the jailed tycoon a “prisoner of conscience” and he was pardoned …read more
Source: Newsweek
