article_snippet: In statements to CNN, Khodorkovsky said Khodorkovsky prosecution was part of a Kremlin campaign to destroy Khodorkovsky and take control of Yukos, the oil company Khodorkovsky built from privatization deals in the 1990s.
article_snippet: At the time of Khodorkovsky's sentencing, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "allegations about some kind of selective prosecution in Russia are groundless.
article_snippet: Russian courts deal with thousands of cases where entrepreneurs are prosecuted.
article_snippet: Due for release in August 2014, Khodorkovsky was released nearly a year earlier, in December 2013, after Putin signed an amnesty decree pardoning Khodorkovsky.
article_snippet: Khodorkovsky release, along with the pardoning of dissident Russian punk band Pussy Riot and a group of Greenpeace protesters, was widely seen as an attempt to improve Russia's image before the Winter Olympics in Sochi last February.
article_snippet: Khodorkovsky is now living in Switzerland.
article_snippet: Last year, a Moscow court sentenced five men to prison for the killing.
article_snippet: How many more Natalya Estemirovas and Anna Politkovskayas must be killed before the Russian authorities protect people who stand up for the human rights of Russian citizens?"