What is Mikhail Khodorkovsky?
[[Image:Mikhail Khodorkovsky 2013-12-22 3.jpg|thumb|right|Khodorkovsky on December 22, 2013 after his release from prison]] '''Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky''' (born 26 June 1963) is a [[Russia]]n businessman. In 2005 he was put in [[prison]] for not paying taxes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10527953/Mikhail-Khodorkovsky-profile.html|title=Mikhail Khodorkovsky: profile|first=Theo|last=Merz|date=19 December 2013|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> On 20 December 2013 [[Putin]] let him out of prison. He lives in [[Germany|London]], having been more recently convicted in absentee of murder for hire.[https://www.rferl.org/amp/khodorkovsky/27420886.html] ==Early life== Khodorkovsky was born in [[Moscow]] to a [[Jewish]] father and Russian mother. He went to the [[Mendeleev]] Chemistry and Technology Institute. == Once the richest man in Russia == In 2003, Khodorkovsky was named [[Person of the Year (Expert magazine)|Person of the Year]] by [[Expert magazine|''Expert'']], sharing this title with [[Roman Abramovich]] and, in 2004, Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in [[Russia]] and one of the richest people in the world, ranked 16th on [[Forbes list of billionaires]]. After the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], Khodorkovsky accumulated wealth by developing [[Siberia]]n [[oil field]]s. He was the head of [[Yukos]], one of the largest Russian companies to emerge from the [[privatization]] of state assets in the 1990s. He was arrested on 25 October 2003. The government under [[Vladimir Putin]] then froze shares of Yukos shortly thereafter on tax charges. The state took further actions against Yukos, leading to a collapse of the company's share price. This destroyed most of Khodorkovsky's wealth. He was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2005. While still serving his sentence, Khodorkovsky and his business partner [[Platon Lebedev]] were further charged and found guilty of [[embezzlement]] and [[money laundering]] in December 2010, ext