‘I want to feel like I’m in Russia, and that’s how I feel’
Opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovksy talks Putin, Navalny, Prigozhin, and more five years after his release from prison Dylan Martinez / Reuters / Scanpix / LETAMikhail Khodorkovsky in London. August 13, 2018 Five years ago, on December 23, 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a decree exonerating Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who led the YUKOS oil company and was once the richest man in Russia. By that time, Khodorkovsky had spent more than 10 years in prison on charges of financial crimes.