Amnesty Sought for Khodorkovsky

The Kremlin’s human rights council called for an amnesty for economic crimes that would apply to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former billionaire head of Yukos Oil. “An amnesty can’t exclude specific individuals,” Tamara Morshchakova, a member of the council set up in February by President Dmitry Medvedev, told reporters Thursday in Moscow. “It would apply to all people accused of these crimes.” Khodorkovsky, the country’s richest man when he […]