“Lunch against Putin”: Kremlin critic explains Putin’s “serious vulnerability”. Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been a sharp critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades.

The West must now aim for this - and deal a blow to Putin's external legitimacy, he writes in a guest article in the German magazine Bild. “We are calling on our supporters to come to the polling stations on a specific day and time. You can’t ban that, you can't prosecute it,” says the former oligarch.