Arms For All? Khodorkovsky Says Russians Need Guns RFE. By Timur Olevsky, Tony Wesolowsky Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a staunch Kremlin critic who went from Russia’s wealthiest man to its highest-profile inmate, remains upbeat about the country he fled upon his release from prison in 2013. His vision of a future democratic Russia would be …