The Meshchansky District Court in Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky in absentia to 10 years in prison in a “fake” case about the Russian army, MediaZona reported. Khodorkovsky was also banned from managing websites for five years. The prosecution requested that he be imprisoned for 14 years.
The fact that a case was opened against Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of “false stories” about the army, became known In January 2024.
The case was sparked by a post on Twitter and a video on Khodorkovsky’s YouTube channel. In September 2022 it is to publish An image of a letter allegedly sent by Deputy Finance Minister Irina Okladenkova to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, which stated that by mid-August, more than 48,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war in Ukraine.
The video presented in the criminal case was published In July 2024 on the political channel on YouTube. In it, he talks about the Russian attack on Kyiv Ukhmatdet Hospital.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is involved in another criminal case, the beginning of which the FSB reported in October 2025. The Political Intelligence Service and 22 other members of the Russian Anti-War Committee were accused of seizing power by violence and organizing or participating in a terrorist community. The reason for the case was the signing in 2023 in Berlin of the “Declaration of Russian Democratic Forces” (the so-called Berlin Declaration), which “stipulates the necessity of eliminating the current Russian government.” In March of this year, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared the Russian Anti-War Committee a “terrorist organization.”