“If this is true, then no matter the formal cause the responsibility for the premature death is Vladimir Putin personally, who first gave the green light to the poisoning of Alexei and then put him in prison,” said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an exiled Russia tycoon turned opposition figure in exile, in an online statement.
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Despite divisions among the Russian opposition, Khodorkovsky said he supported “any model of behavior” which said “no to Putin.”
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