http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
Early life
Khodorkovsky was born in Moscow, where he grew up in an ordinary Soviet family with a two-room apartment, his parents being engineers who "spent their entire careers at a measuring-instruments factory".[12] His father is Jewish and his mother is Russian Orthodox. The young Khodorkovsky was ambitious. He received excellent grades. He became deputy head of Komsomol (the Communist Youth League) at his university, the Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology, where he graduated in chemical engineering in 1986.[13] The Komsomol involvement was one of the ways to get into the ranks of communist apparatchiks and to achieve the highest possible living standard.[14]
After perestroika started, Khodorkovsky used his connections within the communist structures to gain a foothold in the developing free market. He used the help of some powerful people to start his business activities under the cover of Komsomol. Friendship with another Komsomol leader, Alexey Golubovich, helped him greatly in his further success, since Golubovich's parents held top positions in Gosbank, the State Bank of the USSR.[14]
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From: Francine Ponomarenko
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:40 AM
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Subject: [Norton AntiSpam][politics] Khodorkovsky
This may be his very first attack directly against Putin, since his release.
In much earlier items I read that he has some roots in Ukraine. I don't know which parent's side.
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