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Putin freed Khodorkovsky on a Chekist day
On December 20, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the pardon of the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had already arrived in Germany and made an appeal 
The plane with Mikhail Khodorkovsky landed in Berlin. Mikhail Khodorkovsky through his press secretary Olga Pispanen made an appeal that she published on Facebook :
“On November 12, I asked the President of Russia with a request for pardon in connection with family circumstances and glad a positive decision.
The question was not posed about guilt.
I would like to thank everyone who has been following all these years at the Yukos case, and for the support that you provided to me, my family and everyone who was unfairly convicted and is still persecuted. I really look forward to a minute when I can hug my loved ones and personally shake my hand to all my friends and colleagues.
I constantly think about those who are still in prison.
I separately thank Mr. Hans Ditrich Gensher for his personal participation in my fate.
First of all, I am going to pay my debts to my parents, my wife, my children and really look forward to meeting them.
I am waiting for the opportunity to celebrate the upcoming holidays with the family. I wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year "
The president reported that Khodorkovsky wrote a petition for pardon after a press conference for federal and regional media. “For more than 10 years, this is a serious punishment. He refers to humanitarian circumstances, his mother is sick. I believe that having such family circumstances, it is necessary to make a decision appropriate, and in the near future a decree on its pardon will be signed, ”Putin said.
“Guided by the principles of humanity, I decide: to have mercy on the convicted Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich, born in 1963, a native of the city of Moscow, freeing him from further serving his sentence of imprisonment. This Decree comes into force from the date of its signing, ”the document says, published on the presidential website.
Khodorkovsky previously wrote in the article by The New York Times that his mother was sick with cancer. Maria Filippovna Khodorkovskaya herself did not know in advance about the transfer of a petition for pardon to the president. However, she supported her son’s decision.
On October 25, 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested on board his plane. The investigation in the first case of Khodorkovsky was completed in a record two months. The court found him guilty of fraud, assigning someone else's property, non -payment of taxes and other crimes and condemned him to 9 years in prison.
In 2006, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was charged with a new criminal case of theft of oil reserves. On December 30, 2010, he was sentenced to 14 years in a sentence of sentences, taking into account his sentence. In 2012, the punishment was reduced to 11 years in prison in a cassation inspection, in 2013 - up to 10 years and 10 months by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The New Times was reported from the process ( first day and second day ).
Shortly before his 50th anniversary, in an interview with The New Times, Mikhail Khodorkovsky said that he did not believe in the possibility of going out: "I more than doubt the possibility of his liberation."
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is the Columonist The New Times. For more than two years, he has been conducting a series of "prison people."
Now we are waiting for him alive and healthy, in the flesh and blood in the editorial office of the magazine.