Mikhail Khodorkovsky ✓

@khodorkovsky_en · London · joined 07 Oct 2009

A leader of the Russian opposition, reformer. Ex-political prisoner (2003–2013). I post on current events in Russia and beyond. @nestcentreorg, founder

188 915Followers

2 641Following

47 588Posts total

4.8MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

25 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views3 899this account6 271median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.06%this account2.66%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %4.42%this account1.41%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 899	6 271	0.62×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.06%	2.66%	0.78×
Engagement rate	4.42%	1.41%	3.14×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.88%3 Sep

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes86.6%12 746 in total

Reposts9.9%1 453 in total

Replies1.2%172 in total

Quotes0.3%43 in total

Bookmarks2.1%312 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

No matter how hard Kremlin propaganda tries to invent some Eurasian or Asian alternative, Russia is fundamentally a European civilization. From Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk to Vladivostok, our people know no other culture than European. https://t.co/L9bKVjcaiL 4.8K views · 58 likes · 9 reposts · 13 replies 03 Sep 2026 @khodorkovsky_en First, those were not Russian children for Putin to care to begin with. Second, it's not like Putin has ever been known to care about any children, be they Russian or not. 1K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Follow me if you want to understand how a St. Petersburg street gang took over Russia and how to deal with them. Read this on Substack: https://t.co/tOWpPlBO2S [20/20] 3.9K views · 161 likes · 24 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 If he does it to his own citizens, he will do it to anyone—and the real threat to global stability is not his departure, but his continued rule. [19/20] 3.8K views · 153 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Beslan was the definitive, horrific proof that Putin is a sociopath who treats his own citizens as disposable for his power and ratings. [18/20] 3K views · 170 likes · 21 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 When the mothers asked why the official investigation remains unfinished after 20 years, Putin claimed he was "hearing about this for the first time" and told them to talk to the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin. [16/20] 2.6K views · 108 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 His sudden visit after 20 years of silence was a PR stunt to distract the public from his massive military failure in the Kursk region during the incursion of Ukrainian forces. Essentially, nothing more than a media prop to cover up his own weakness [17/20] 2.5K views · 122 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 He was so unprepared and lacking in empathy that he got the number of dead children wrong on camera, saying 136 died instead of 186. The rest of the time he spent lecturing mothers about imaginary foreign conspiracies. [15/20] 2.7K views · 121 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 They demanded answers as to why the storming was conducted the way it was. Instead of answers, they were met with arrests and fines; sentenced to community service. 8 years later, in 2024, for the 20th anniversary, Putin staged a hasty, televised visit to the grieving town. 2.8K views · 124 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 In 2016, "Golos Beslana" (Voice of Beslan)—the organization of mothers who lost their children—staged a protest. They came out in public wearing t-shirts that read "Putin is the executioner of Beslan." [13/20] https://t.co/Mcsxe8drcF 3.1K views · 143 likes · 15 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 In 2023, he designated September 3rd as "Victory over Japan" The new holiday invented only to erase Ossetia's pain from public memory. https://t.co/Fod90NLdIL The regime has consistently treated grieving families with immense cruelty. [12/20] 3.1K views · 129 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 For two decades, Putin boycotted Beslan on the anniversaries. On major milestones like the 10th and 15th anniversaries, he flew to Mongolia to celebrate a century-old battle instead. [11/20] 3.2K views · 129 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Of course, in reality, this proposal had nothing to do with security. The sole reason for undoing the gubernatorial elections was to destroy federalism and secure lifelong rule and immunity for himself. [10/20] 3.3K views · 135 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The political cynicism of the moment was simply astonishing. Putin used the heinous attack on children as the reason for abolishing the direct elections of regional governors. He presented it as an "anti-terrorist" measure when Russian society was horrified. 3.7K views · 157 likes · 20 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The surviving children got free places at the boarding school I founded outside Moscow, run by my parents while I was in prison. The tax service decided free schooling counted as income and billed the parents 13% of it. They only backed off when the parents threatened a hunger h 4K views · 162 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 At Putin's orders, Russian forces fired thermobaric weapons directly at the mined school building, detonating explosives and igniting a massive, fatal fire. They had one main priority: destroying the terrorists. Saving children came in second, if further down on the list. https: 4.3K views · 158 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The moments cameras were turned off, the survivors were cut off from aid. The state that vaporized their school didn't spend a single ruble to fix their shattered bones and burn scars. I had to personally step in from my prison cell to coordinate and fund their medical https:// 4.1K views · 174 likes · 15 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 To Putin, who positioned himself as a young and energetic new leader, engaging in dialogue with someone like Maskhadov would mean instant "loss of face". To stop him from mediating and gaining legitimacy, the Kremlin ordered a sudden, bloody storming. It was not a rescue https:/ 4.6K views · 158 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 It was also a pivotal moment for the now-head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, who rose to prominence for her broadcasts during the attack and whose "talents" were noticed. At some point during the crisis, it became clear that successful negotiations to save the children were highly h 5K views · 149 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The siege lasted 3 days. All this time, students and teachers were held in cramped, unsanitary conditions, denied water or food, with no access to toilets. State TV deliberately lied to the public and claimed there were only 350 hostages—knowing damn well over 1,100 hostages 5.3K views · 160 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized School No. 1 in Beslan, town in southern Russia. They took hostages over a thousand children, relatives, and teachers. They demanded a withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. [2/20] 5.6K views · 163 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 22 years ago, Putin sacrificed the children of Beslan for power, then abandoned the survivors. When I paid for their rehab, parents received tax bills for it. 🧵[1/20] https://t.co/4g88tjiIiG 60.2K views · 1.5K likes · 367 reposts · 18 replies 03 Sep 2026 Exactly. Even if Putin launches this rumored mobilization, it won't change the situation on the front lines anytime soon. By the time they actually manage to draft, equip, and train these people, we won't see any real impact on the battlefield until well after the New Year. 9.1K views · 163 likes · 29 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 Russia's upcoming mass mobilization won't improve Russia's performance on the battlefield if they can't properly train and equip them. @prestonstew_ https://t.co/uUk6WJxjbt 14.6K views · 309 likes · 43 reposts · 14 replies 03 Sep 2026 Putin has allowed the state to take over enterprises that "defended themselves poorly" from drones. In effect, owners have been told: if your plant is hit, you defend it yourselves. The state is dropping the main duty of any state — protecting its citizens from external attack. 6.7K views · 169 likes · 27 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 @mbk_center @JukkaPSeppl You forgot withdrawal to the 1991 borders and a huge, enormous restoration payment to Ukraine. 49.1K views · 559 likes · 14 reposts · 11 replies 01 May 2023 The Declaration in Russian and extended list of signatories can be found here https://t.co/9xxw6zcjMz 99.4K views · 1.3K likes · 161 reposts · 42 replies 01 May 2023 Signed by over 8000 people, including: @sguriev @chich_8 @gudkovd @AnIllarionov @Leonid_Gozman @galerist @kudriavtsev @FeyginMark4 @4irikova @kirillrogov @pravoslovo1 @kisevg Myself 112K views · 1.8K likes · 141 reposts · 25 replies 01 May 2023 We commit to support this declaration until our common strategic goals are achieved. Berlin 30 April 2023 105.1K views · 2.1K likes · 150 reposts · 12 replies 01 May 2023 Signatories refrain from public conflict within the democratic and anti-war movements. We call on Russian citizens to co-sign this declaration: https://t.co/9xxw6zcRC7 116.3K views · 2.1K likes · 226 reposts · 6 replies 01 May 2023

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