Khodorkovsky applies for Switzerland visa

Update: 2013-12-25 00:35 GMT
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has applied for a visa to Switzerland less than a week after being released from decade-long imprisonment in Russia.

A spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry says Khodorkovsky submitted the request at the Swiss embassy in Berlin. The 50-year-old, a long-time critic of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, flew to Germany on Friday within hours of being pardoned. Swiss Foreign Ministry  declined to provide further details.

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