Russia accuses Khodorkovsky and other exiled opponents of plotting to seize power


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 Oct 2025

Exiled Russian former opposition oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, speaks during a demonstration marking the upcoming anniversary of 1,000 Days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in London, Britain, November 17, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

(Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accusing him of creating a "terrorist organisation" and of plotting to violently seize power.

The FSB said it was investigating more than 20 other people as part of the same case, including prominent dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economists Sergei Aleksashenko and Sergei Guriev.

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