Khodorkovsky Restarts Civil Resistance Group in Putin Challenge

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil tycoon who spent a decade in prison under the reign of President Vladimir Putin, called on his supporters to help influence the nation’s 2016 parliamentary elections as he restarted the Open Russia civil movement.

“The main goal of resistance is elections of all levels, but first and foremost, of course, the 2016 elections to the State Duma, which has become a bulwark of reaction in Russia,” Khodorkovksy wrote on his website during the global online Open Russia forum yesterday. We “need to create an infrastructure that is ready to support any candidate in elections of any level who adheres in practice to the European choice and who is prepared to fight the cancerous tumour that has consumed Russia.”