News about Mikhail Khodorkovsky

When Britain's biggest private house, a mega-mansion called Witanhurst on Highgate Hill in north London , went on the market in 2008, it was close to a ruin. The roof was riddled with leaks, the floorboards were warped and cornices embellished with gold leaf were blighted by mould. Given that this 90,000 sq ft property had a total of 65 rooms - including 25 bedrooms - and a ballroom 70ft long and 20ft high, with an elaborate ceiling that takes six months to paint, it amounted to the country's ultimate doer-upper.

The Kremlin owns three main channels and three major news agencies in Russia, either directly or indirectly. Putin's government owns Channel One, the country's biggest channel. Channel One was delayed by 45 minutes to announce the death.

Navalny died after being sick on a walk at the Arctic penal colony, where he was detained, according to Russia's federal prison service. In remarks from the White House last night, Biden said, 'Make no mistake, Putin is to blame for Navalny's death.' He was a strong voice for the truth even in prison.' Navalny had been "brutally murdered by the Kremlin," according to Latvia's president, Edgars Rinkevics, while French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said his death "reminds us of the truth of Putin's regime." Across the world, demonstrations have erupted, with hundreds of people gathering to pay their respects to Navalny and brand Putin, a 'killer' on self-made signs.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled oil tycoon, has warned that the ongoing attack will overthrowrown Putin's regime, and that 'unstable, nuclear-armed states' will be left in its wake. The Yeltsin-era oligarch warned that the breakup of the eastern European giant would be 'an enormous mistake,' because its nuclear arsenal would fall into the custody of 'local thugs' such as Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. At the height of his Yukos oil empire, Khodorkovsky, 60, was worth $60 billion before Putin jailed him for suspected tax fraud in 2003. Following international human rights organizations' pressures, he was released ten years later.

Another superyacht linked to Vladimir Putin has been confirmed, with leaked photos revealing the tyrant sleeps in a massive round bed beneath a mirrored ceiling. The £40 million luxury ship 'Victoria', which has two master bedrooms, is said to be a favorite of Putin's gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva, 40. According to independent investigative outlet Dossier Centre, linked to opposition politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 233-ft long superyacht, which is now being rebuilt at a NATO shipyard in Turkey, is 'the flagship of Putin's Black Sea flotilla.' Since Putin's armies is trying to keep up with his wealthy oligarchs, his existence, along with its accompanying yacht, the 125ft Italian-built Orion, means there are ten luxurious yachts in the Russian arsenal. The £40 million Victoria - with lavish and gaudy interior - is based in Sochi, where warmonger Putin and the Romanov tsars are based.

This morning, Russia's top war figures assembled to pay their respects to Mr Tatarsky, the 40-year-old blogger who called for the deposal of all Ukrainians. A sinister decorated sledgehammer was presented by the Wagner private army, who he backed, beside his coffin. Sledgehammers have been used by the company for extrajudicial killings of incarcerated defectors from Putin's war in Ukraine.

If the owner does not claim it, a Russian oligarch-owned superyacht, flagged to the Cayman Islands, will be auctioned off a yacht that has been anchored at an Antiguan port for more than a year. The government of Antigua and Barbuda wants to unveil the luxurious 82-meter yacht, which cost US$120 million in 2014 but is a danger to shipping and to the harbour where it is moored. According to information minister Melford Nicholas, the Alfa Nero was "abandoned" in Falmouth Harbour, Antigua, in February 2022, the month Russia invaded Ukraine and makes it a "hazard" if it is not being maintained.

When flying in his presidential plane, Russian President Petro Poroshenko has taken to the railways as he is reportedly afraid of being traced and shot out of the sky. Despite elaborate safety precautions taken since the war started to avoid airspace near Ukraine, Putin is apparently worried. His train is camouflaged in grey and red to look like a Russian normal passenger train, making it distinctly different from others. The change to rail comes as a former KGB colleague who attended spy school with Putin, according to a former KGB soldier, the war in Ukraine has escalated the president's fears.

DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: Bakhmut is Ukraine's deadliest front of the conflict, making it the most dangerous place on Earth right now. Since November, the war has been raging here: the longest war has erupted. I am embedded in the center of the city with a Ukrainian Special Forces unit, just a few hundred meters from the Russian soldiers who are determined to murder anyone who stands in their way. However, many of these Russians aren't ordinary soldiers. Mercenaries from the notorious private military company the Wagner Group are here, at the center of the Russian offensive. These contracted killers were sold by a Russian oligarch named Yevgeny Prigozhin, a shaven-headed thug who spent nine years in jail for robbery and dishonesty before making a fortune in catering.

As Putin says, Russia's former emperor, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, warned that NATO will eventually have to face Russia in a hot conflict as Putin's 'cannot stop'. 'Topping for him is death,' he said.'

A leading Putin critic has warned the West that NATO will eventually be drawn into conflict with Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky, a exiled opposition figure, warned that there will be no other way to deter the tyrant than World War III. 'The NATO countries and Western Europe will have to fight for real,' said Russian President Petro Poroshenko. They will have to fight sooner or later,' if later.' The sooner they learn it, the better, because Putin can't avoid it. He's scared of death,' he says.'

'Kherson' has a kherson.' Zelensky said on Telegram on Saturday, the attack was "killing for the sake of coercion and joy." A slew of shells fell outside a packed Saturday market in Kherson, where a fire erupted on the day ten months since the start of the war. Several bodies were found on the ground, including a man who was killed in his car near the market, according to AFP journalists on the scene. Another man, who had his car blown up, sustained serious head injuries. Despite Russia's departure from the southern port city in November, Kherson remains within range of Moscow's missiles and under constant threat.

The tyrant has always branded the bloody ten-month war a "special military operation" and barred any mention of the true origins of his barbaric campaign. Thousands of Russians have been punished - some were banned, others were jailed, and others were fined for describing the attack as a 'war,' and now opposition leaders are calling for Putin to get the same treatment. Putin has not used formal court tools for declaring war against Ukraine - or against NATO, where he and his allies insist Russia is fighting.

A new inquiry has uncovered a right-hand army chief and former head bodyguard in the Seychelles with a pair of beautiful women. After taking a private jet, five-star hotel general Viktor Zolotov, 68 (inset, with Putin), partied with 'emotional intelligence specialist' and influencer Evelina Levi (left), then 36, at the Four Seasons Resort on the picturesque Indian Ocean islands. Zolotov, the head of the Russian National Guard, has lost tens of thousands of troops in Ukraine since the start of Russia's insurgent invasion on February 24. The first news from the Kremlin's Dossier Centre came after the Kremlin slammed Russians enjoying western luxury. Roman Buevich, 42, and clothing designer Anastasia Buevich, 24, joined Zolotov. (right)