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'As a Russian citizen I am proud of him. As a mother, I have mixed feelings' On the first anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian billionaire, his parents talk exclusively to Tom Parfitt about the family's ordeal
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A startling sight awaits visitors to the home of Boris and Marina
Khodorkovsky. On top of a television stands a signed portrait of the
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, who ordered the arrest of their
beloved son.
"We keep it there to remind us who started all this," says Mr
Khodorkovsky, 75, with a bitter laugh.
"All this" began a year ago tomorrow, on October 25, 2003, when
the couple's only child, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man,
was seized in a dramatic raid by armed police as his private jet
refuelled at a Siberian airport.
A black hood was pulled over his head and he was ...
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