30 Facts About Pavel Khodorkovsky

Pavel Mikhailovich Khodorkovsky is a Russian businessman and political activist who has lived in the United States since 2003.

Pavel Khodorkovsky is a son of Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once the richest person in Russia.

In 2010, the younger Khodorkovsky co-founded Enertiv, an energy monitoring firm for commercial facilities.

Pavel Khodorkovsky, who like his father is a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, is the founder of the Institute of Modern Russia.

Pavel Khodorkovsky was born on June 14,1985, to Mikhail Pavel Khodorkovsky and his first wife Elena Dobrovolskaya.

Pavel Khodorkovsky's parents were divorced when he was three years old.

Pavel Khodorkovsky is one of four children of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The younger Pavel Khodorkovsky later described his childhood relationship with his father as "excellent" and said that his mother often let him see his father after the divorce.

At the age of 14, Pavel Khodorkovsky was sent to boarding school in Switzerland.

Pavel Khodorkovsky later said that his father had "advised [him] to study at a university abroad" but that the decision to go to the US was his own.

Pavel Khodorkovsky moved to the US at age 18 in the autumn of 2003 to study business administration at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, which is near Boston.

Pavel Khodorkovsky graduated in 2007 with a degree in business administration.

In 2007, after receiving his bachelor's degree from Babson, Pavel Khodorkovsky moved to New York City.

Pavel Khodorkovsky began working as a project manager for New Media Internet, a firm owned by Russian businessman Vladimir Gusinsky, who had relocated to the US New Media Internet oversees technical support for Russian news websites.

Pavel Khodorkovsky said that his father had not originally been impressed by his plan to launch the firm.

Pavel Khodorkovsky keeps telling me that this is the key to success in business.

In February 2010, Pavel Khodorkovsky founded the Institute of Modern Russia, a non-governmental human-rights organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy in Russia.

Pavel Khodorkovsky described himself as optimistic about the outcome of his father's trial "but did not expect an outright acquittal because that would allow his father to be freed" at the end of his sentence in 2011.

The younger Pavel Khodorkovsky had hoped his father would win, but stated he was prepared for his father's imprisonment.

Pavel Khodorkovsky stated that he would continue his activism despite the outcome of his father's case.

Also in May 2011, Pavel Khodorkovsky called on supporters of his father to write letters on his behalf to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Pavel Khodorkovsky asserted that any official condemnations of the ruling would incite the Russian government.

Pavel Khodorkovsky added that his father's case underscored the risks faced by foreign investors in Russia.

Pavel Khodorkovsky noted that the appeal rejection would present itself as a substantial risk for investors.

Pavel Khodorkovsky promised that he would will keep fighting for his father's freedom and for a free Russia.

Pavel Khodorkovsky told Le Figaro in that year, before his father's release.

Pavel Khodorkovsky met with Minister for Europe, David Lidington, in October 2013, to discuss his father's imprisonment and urge Europe to put pressure on Russia for the release of his father.

Pavel Khodorkovsky flew to Berlin with his daughter Diana to be reunited with his father after the latter's release from prison in December 2013.

Pavel Khodorkovsky said to me: 'thank you for not giving up on me' which was so important to me.

Pavel Khodorkovsky has severely criticized Russia's ban on US adoptions of Russian children.