BERLIN: Kremlin critic and Russia's former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky prepared Sunday to address his future after being whisked to Germany upon his stunning release following a decade in jail.

The man who had been Russia's most famous inmate was reunited with his family in Berlin on Saturday after being pardoned a day earlier by President Vladimir Putin in what was widely read as a Kremlin effort to mute criticism of its dismal rights record ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in February.

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