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Russian court convicts Mikhail Khodorkovsky over foreign website posts

Original: михаил ходорковский

A Russian court has found Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty for publications posted on foreign websites, sentencing him in absentia. Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos oil chief who has lived abroad since 2013 and is a prominent Kremlin critic, was convicted in a case that has drawn attention to Moscow's widening crackdown on criticism voiced from outside the country.

Why now: A new criminal conviction against Russia's best-known exiled opposition figure has just been announced.

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