YouTube Channel Statistics Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is the founder of the Open Russia movement. A pioneering philanthropist, he established the Open Russia Foundation in 2001 with the aim of building and strengthening civil society... See more in Russia. An early supporter of democratic change, at a televised meeting with President Putin in early 2003, he criticised endemic corruption. Later that same year he was arrested, and jailed on charges of tax evasion and fraud, charges, which he denied and vigorously defended. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International; and finally released in December 2013. Open Russia aims to connect and unite Russian citizens who seek a state governed by the rule of law, with a strong civil society, regular free and fair elections, and the promotion of democratic values.