When Khodokovsky came out of prison, there were a number of interviews with
him. In one which I saw, he was asked what his thoughts were about Maidan.
He was very supportive, and said he was concerned for the fate of Ukraine
because he had ties there, and said, u menja rodstviniki v Ukrajini. More
specifics I do not know.
On Sunday, 9 March 2014, Stefan Lemieszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
>
>
> Early life
>
> Khodorkovsky was born in Moscow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow>,
> where he grew up in an ordinary Soviet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union>family with a two-room apartment, his parents being engineers who "spent
> their entire careers at a measuring-instruments factory".[12]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky#cite_note-VF01-12>His father is Jewish and his mother is Russian
> Orthodox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Christianity>.
> The young Khodorkovsky was ambitious. He received excellent grades. He
> became deputy head of Komsomol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol>(the Communist Youth League) at his university, the Mendeleev
> Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendeleev_Moscow_Institute_of_Chemistry_and_Technology>,
> where he graduated in chemical engineering<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_engineering>in 1986.
> [13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky#cite_note-Gessen-13>The
> Komsomol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol> involvement was one of
> the ways to get into the ranks of communist apparatchiks and to achieve the
> highest possible living standard.[14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky#cite_note-Hoffman-14>
>
> After perestroika <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika> started,
> Khodorkovsky used his connections within the communist structures to gain a
> foothold in the developing free market<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market>.
> He used the help of some powerful people to start his business activities
> under the cover of Komsomol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol>.
> Friendship with another Komsomol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol>leader, Alexey Golubovich, helped him greatly in his further success, since
> Golubovich's parents held top positions in Gosbank<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosbank>,
> the State Bank of the USSR.[14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky#cite_note-Hoffman-14>
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> *From:* Francine Ponomarenko<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:40 AM
> *To:* [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
> *Subject:* [Norton AntiSpam][politics] Khodorkovsky
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>
> http://24tv.ua/home/showSingleNews.do?rosiyska_propaganda_breshe__na_maydani_nemaye_fashistiv_i_natsistiv__hodorkovskiy&objectId=418904
>
> 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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