Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky visits Kiev, a day before giving students a lecture on human rights and freedom March 9, 2014. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
KIEV (Reuters) - Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, addressing thousands of people at the cradle of the uprising against Ukraine's Moscow-backed leader, accused Russia on Sunday of being complicit in police violence against protesters.
To chants of "Russia, rise up", Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for a decade under President Vladimir Putin, told the crowd the Kremlin was lying to its own people by portraying the protesters as "neo-fascists" bent on violence.
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