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  1. 6 days ago · Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 2005. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (born June 26, 1963, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian oil tycoon and, at one time, the richest man in Russia, who was imprisoned in 2003 on charges of fraud and tax evasion. One of Russia’s famed “ oligarchs ,” he was convicted of those crimes and others before being released in 2013.

  2. Summary Biography. A successful businessman, Khodorkovsky was head of YUKOS, one of the world’s largest oil producers, where he established international management codes of practice, and substantially increased production. As a pioneering philanthropist, he established the Open Russia Foundation in 2001 with the aim of building and ...

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  4. Mikhail Khodorkovsky is an exiled Russian businessman, a former oligarch, and a philanthropist, best known for being mishandled by the Russian government for his anti-communist stance. Mikhail was born and raised in Moscow, Soviet Union, into a middle-class family. His parents were both engineers, and Mikhail led a comfortable life.

  5. Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a Jewish Russian oligarch and former Russian political prisoner. Khodorkovsky (born June 26, 1963) was born in Moscow to a Jewish father who was a factory worker, Khodorkovsky graduated from the Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, where he studied economics, and served as deputy head of the Communist Youth League, the Komsomol.

  6. Jan 5, 2015 · Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who got rich in the post-Soviet legal vacuum, makes an unlikely democracy activist. Photograph by Davide Monteleone / VII. It has been a year since the ...

  7. Dec 22, 2013 · Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man as head of oil giant Yukos, spent 10 years in custody for tax evasion and theft after funding opposition parties.

  8. Dec 20, 2013 · When secret service personnel in black combat fatigues stormed Mikhail Khodorkovsky'sprivate jet at the remote Siberian Tolmachevo airport in 2003, the oil tycoon was said to be worth $15bn (£10bn).

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