Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky named as murder suspect in Russia
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Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky named as murder suspect in Russia
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(MOSCOW) — Russian investigators announced Tuesday they are reopening the case of the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor and consider former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky a prime suspect.
At the time when Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov was shot dead, he was involved in a conflict with Khodorkovsky’s oil company, Yukos, over the payment of taxes to the town. Khodorkovsky and his associates have denied any involvement and no one has been convicted in the killing.
The announcement that investigators were considering whether to charge Khodorkovsky with ordering the killing came as he is becoming an increasingly strong voice in Russian opposition politics.
Khodorkovsky has lived in exile in Switzerland since his 2013 release from prison, where he spent 10 years on charges of tax evasion, embezzlement and money laundering that were seen as punishment for challenging President Vladimir Putin’s power. He funds a Russian civil society organization called Open Russia.
Investigators now have information implicating Khodorkovsky directly in the killing of the mayor and other crimes, Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for the federal Investigative Committee, said in a statement. He said they intended to question Khodorkovsky, and “his absence from Russian territory would not be an insurmountable obstacle.”
Khodorkovsky’s spokeswoman Olga Pispanen said there would be no comment, the Tass news agency reported.
The Kremlin is suspicious of non-governmental organizations, especially those funded from abroad, seeing them as aimed at undermining Putin’s rule. The Russian government also is fighting a ruling made last year by an arbitration court in The Hague, Netherlands, that it must pay $50 billion to compensate the former shareholders of Yukos, which was bankrupted in the same legal onslaught that sent Khodorkovsky to prison.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia wants to question former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a suspect in a murder case that has been reopened because of new evidence, federal investigators said on Tuesday.
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Russian investigators say they are reopening a criminal investigation into the 1998 murder of a Siberian mayor, and that they consider self-exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a prime suspect.
Georgia will continue to pursue workable diplomatic relations with Russia despite ongoing tensions and the Kremlin’s aggressive actions in Eastern Europe, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told a domestic newspaper Monday. Russia’s relationship with its neighbors in Eastern Europe suffered in recent months after its annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and purported involvement in the eastern Ukraine conflict.
Georgia will “regulate its relationship with Russia through constructive and pragmatic dialogue,” Garibashvili told a newspaper in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, according to Russian-owned Tass. “Relations with our neighbor country needed adjusting, so more than two years ago, Georgia started direct talks with Russia,” he added.
Russian Foreign Ministry officials met with Georgia’s ambassador to Russia on seven occasions between 2013 to 2014, and new talks are slated for July. Recent negotiations improved the two nations’ economic ties and granted Georgia access to Russian markets, Garibashvili said.
Georgia is one of several nations, including Ukraine, Finland and Sweden, that have been mentioned in recent months as possible entrants into the NATO military alliance. Many Eastern European nations have strengthened their ties with the alliance amid an increase in Russian military exercises and aggression in the region.
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Diplomatic relations between Georgia and Russia have been tense since 1991, when Georgia gained its independence from the fallen Soviet Union. The two nations engaged in a brief conflict in 2008 that led Russia to declare the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, despite Western objections. Some 170 Georgian soldiers were killed in five days of fighting.
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