'The New Enemy Of Humankind- Era Of Dictatorship Will End'- Billionaire Khodorkovsky

 He spent a decade in prison but once was the richest businessman in Russia. Having spent a decade in prison, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was charged with fraud and tax evasion for which he served a long jail sentence.

As the former CEO of the Russian oil giant Yukos, he temporarily became Russia's richest man in 2003 with a reported net worth of $15 billion. In 2001, he founded Open Russia, a diplomacy initiative that was later shut down by Russian authorities. He served a sentence from 2005 for nine years. In 2013, he was actually pardoned by Vladimir Putin himself.

Khodorkovsky has now predicted that the Ukrainian war is technically going to reduce Putin’s era of leadership. One wonders why would he speak against the person who pardoned him in the first place? But the fact of the matter was revealed in a 2010 Reuters report where Khodorkovsky said that his imprisonment was actually politically motivated. Putin's former prime minister testified that the Kremlin ordered Khodorkovsky's arrest due to his funding of the opposition party.

It is a well-known fact that Putin has never let anyone else stand in his way of his dictatorship and has been known to eliminate the whiff of a competition easily. Living in London, he is now known as one of Putin’s most ‘outspoken’ critics.

Having considered the ‘enemy of humankind’ Putin has dug his own grave, he feels. Further, his prediction that Russia's attack on Ukraine will eventually end Putin's rule has been echoed by experts at the Kennan Institute, a Russian research center in the US.

Business is very precious nowadays and therefore no one wants to advocate for war in any way. This is one reason that even A handful of Russian billionaires have spoken out over the past week to similarly denounce the invasion of Ukraine.