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A criminal case was opened against Garry Kasparov, Khodorkovsky, and several other famous figures
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a case against Khodorkovsky and members of the Russian Anti-War Committee on charges of seizing power and terrorism.
The service said the defendants also include former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, politicians Vladimir Kara-Murza, Dmitry Gudkov, Garry Kasparov, Leonid Gozman, Maxim Reznik, and Anastasia Shevchenko.
The list also includes former Central Bank deputy chairman Sergei Aleksashenko, economist Sergei Guriev, businessmen Boris Zimin, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, and Mikhail Kokorich, political scientist Ekaterina Shulman, gallery owner Marat Gelman, publicist Viktor Shenderovich, journalists Yevgeny Kiselyov and Kirill Martynov, lawyer Elena Lukyanova, actor Arthur Smolyaninov, scientist Konstantin Chumakov, biologist Yevgeny Kunin, and others.
According to the FSB, the individuals mentioned above created the Russian Anti-War Committee after the war in Ukraine, the goal of which is "the violent seizure of power" and "change of the constitutional order" in Russia.
The defendants face up to life imprisonment.
