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Marina Khodorkovskaya died
Marina Filippovna Khodorkovskaya, the mother of the Yukos ECC and former political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, died at the age of 79, reports Echo of Moscow. Recently, she has been seriously ill and treated abroad.
Marina Khodorkovskaya, in the girlishness of Petrova, was born on September 13, 1934. Together with her husband Boris Moiseevich Khodorkovsky, she worked all her life at the Moscow Caliber plant, both in engineering positions. Until 1971, the family lived in a communal apartment.
After retirement, Marina Khodorkovskaya gave the time and effort to develop the Boarding Lyceum "Corallovo" for orphans.
In December last year, when Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the pardon of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya was among the first relatives who met him in Berlin after liberation. She stated that she supported her son’s petition for pardon "entirely and completely." Marina Khodorkovskaya also said that before that she had been seen with her son in the summer of 2013.
Commenting on the media reaction to the liberation of the ex-head of the “Yukos” from the colony, his mother said: “I know the conditions in which he spent ten years. And only the person who experienced the same thing can judge him.”
June 2008. Shooting Dmitry Borco: