Jailed Russian Oligarch Khodorkovsky Becomes Columnist
Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2001
The jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has become a columnist for a Russian weekly magazine. In New Times, Khodorkovsky — once Russia’s richest businessman — will write of his experiences behind bars. Since his arrest in 2003 and subsequent imprisonment, Khodorkovsky has published a number of articles. In New Times, he will be writing of life behind bars and of his fellow prisoners. Marco Werman talks with New Times editor Yevgenia Albats.
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