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Russian oligarch in London fatalistic about his safety from attack

Mikhail Khodorkovsky says ‘no amount of security’ would be enough if Putin wanted him dead
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, believes Sergei Skripal was killed by the security services. Photograph: Open Russia

The exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said he has decided not to employ personal security guards in London despite the rising unease among the Russian diaspora, because he recognises that if the Russian president wants him dead “no amount of security measures can prevent that”.

He believes that the targeting of Sergei Skripal was a clear case of security agency retribution towards a defector, and said it had

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