Putin frees jailed oil ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

December 20, 2013 18:44

NYT reports: President Vladimir V. Putin issued a decree on Friday freeing Russia's most famous prisoner, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of Yukos Oil whose arrest and imprisonment 10 years ago punctuated an authoritarian turn in Russia's modern history.

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