Khodorkovksi in Switzerland

The Swiss authorities have granted to the former Russian oil Tycoon a three-month visa that allows you to circulate in twenty-six countries of the Schengen area.

Before being arrested in 2003, Khodorkovsky had, with various partners, at least four companies in Geneva.

Khodorkovsky said that Switzerland is the second country where you can breathe the air of freedom "after Germany, where had followed after being released on December 20, thanks to the presidential pardon of Vladimir Putin.

En route by train from Berlin, Khodorkovksi was joined by television journalist Switzerland SRF, Peter Gysling, who says that "he will definitely support the new Russian civil society with their ideas and perhaps financially, from abroad. But it won't participate in Russian policy. "

Khodorkovksi, which was the richest man in Russia, spent a decade in prison after a process that many interpret as a political vendetta for having challenged President Vladimir Putin.

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