Medvedev disclaimed plans to pardon Khodorkovsky 2011
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January 25, 2012, 15:55
He added that he would like “political background be removed from the Khodorkovsky case”
MOSCOW, January 25 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev disclaimed the information that previous summer he was about to grant a presidential pardon to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but somebody stopped him.
At a meeting with students of the Journalism Department of the Moscow State University on Wednesday he added that he would like “political background be removed from the Khodorkovsky case.”