On May 17, 2016, the Moscow Times reported that the Russian authorities had forwarded new case files and incriminating documents to Interpol to bolster the case for an arrest warrant against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. These legal proceedings caused tremendous international controversy. Kremlin critics allege that the new charges laid against Khodorkovsky are politically motivated and a direct consequence of Khodorkovsky's scathing criticisms of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Huffington Post: Former Yukos CEO and political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Vladimir Putin and Russia’s post-Putin future
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of Open Russia, speaks on \"Russia's Strategic Interest with the West,\" at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, June 17, 2015.
