18 May 2018

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Putin ‘lives and rules like Al Capone’

Europe Editor and Presenter

 

While Britain places the blame for the Skripal poisonings firmly on Russia, we went to meet the exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky to ask about the Kremlin’s continuing strained relationship with the West. He was once Russia’s richest man, as head of the oil giant Yukos, before spending 10 years in prison for tax evasion. He now funds the advance of democracy and rule of law in Russia.