Banished Russian opposition activist Mikhail Khodorkovskysaid he was in participation at U.S.
President-elect Donald Trumps inauguration on Monday.May too inspect it out, given that Ive been welcomed, Khodorkovsky posted on X, describing security steps at the occasion as easygoing.
Khodorkovsky attached a selfie of himself in a tuxedo, followed by pictures of the inside of Capital One Arena in downtown Washington and a visitor pass for a Jan.
18 cabinet reception.
Public viewers are enjoying the inauguration fromCapital One Arena while Trumps swearing-in ceremony is happening at the U.S.
Capitol due to cold weather.Khodorkovsky, when Russias wealthiest guy, left the nation after he was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin and freed from prison in late 2013.
The Kremlinsaidlast week that it would not send a representative to the event.Nobody will represent Russia at the inauguration ceremony, Kremlin assistant Yury Ushakov told reporters Friday, adding that an interim charge daffaires would attend if invited.Though Trumpinvited a host of foreign leaders to his inauguration, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskovsaid the U.S.
president-elect had actually not done the very same for Putin.Trumps inauguration marks the first time that foreign leaders have participated in a U.S.
presidential inauguration, as they are generally attended by ambassadors and other diplomats.Russia has not had an ambassador to the U.S.
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