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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Washington Post Reporter

Exiled oligarch calls on Russian tycoons to declare Putin ‘war criminal’ over Ukraine

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the self-exiled Russian oligarch and vocal Kremlin opponent, has called on Russian billionaires and officials who have fled the country to publicly denounce President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as criminal.

"Public figures cannot leave quietly and then sit quietly,” he said. “If you have left, then you should publicly dissociate yourself or we should be forced to suspect that you are acting on [the Kremlin’s] behalf.

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