MOSCOW — The billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets became one of the first public figures to try to take advantage of Russia’s suddenly transformed political landscape, declaring Monday that he would run for president against Vladimir Putin in March.
The last billionaire who challenged Putin has been in jail since 2003, but Mikhail Prokhorov said he was not afraid to share the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon who was accused of tax evasion and had his company seized after he crossed swords with Putin.
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