Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to
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Khodorkovsky with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on 20 December 2002
Khodorkovsky in 2001
Rally in support of political prisoners in Russia, Moscow on 27 October 2013
Komsomol
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The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League — Vsesoiuznyi leninskii kommunisticheskii soiuz molodëzhi — commonly known as Komsomol, was a communist youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is some
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
…man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus, during the Soviet years, and started several businesses during the period of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s. In 1989, he became…
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Crowd outside the Tauride Palace in Petrograd during the February Revolution of 1917.
Street protest in Petrograd being gunned down by troops of the Provisional Government. Although originating spontaneously, the Bolsheviks were blamed for the 4 July 1917 disturbance, leading to the arrest of prominent party leaders.
Some of the 176 delegates to the founding congress of the Komsomol, Moscow, late October and early November 1918.