article_snippet: In 2003, Vladimir Putin did this by arresting and imprisoning the richest oligarch in the country, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
article_snippet: When Mikhail Khodorkovsky was put on trial in 2004, Vladimir Putin allowed the television cameras film the wealthiest man in the country sitting in a cage.
article_snippet: Imagine that you were the 17th richest man in Russia, and you saw a man more successful and influential than you sitting in a courtroom cage.