Thomson ReutersMay 31, 2013 13:47
By Douglas Busvine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A leading economist who fled Russia after being questioned by state investigators said on Friday he had left because he preferred freedom to living in fear, but that President Vladimir Putin was not to blame.
Sergei Guriev, head of Moscow's New Economic School, left Russia this month after being questioned in an investigation into defunct oil firm Yukos, whose founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Putin critic, was jailed in 2005 for fraud.
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