RUSSIA ACCUSES KHODORKOVSKY, OTHER EXILED OPPONENTS OF PLOTTING TO SEIZE POWER

Since 2022 he has positioned himself as a leading figure among Russian exiles opposed to Putin. Shortly after the war's outbreak, he was designated a “foreign agent” by Russia.

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to violently seize power.

The FSB said it was investigating all 22 members of the Russian Antiwar Committee - a group of politicians, business people, journalists, lawyers, artists and academics all based outside the country, who oppose Russia's war in Ukraine.

Apart from Khodorkovsky, the group includes prominent dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

The FSB statement referred to the group as “Khodor-kovsky and his accomplices,” implying it saw him as the main figure.