Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others like him launching political campaigns for the selection of candidates for Russia’s 2018 presidential election are “irrevocably cut off from Russia,” said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.“Only one thing can be said here: these [campaign projects] are developed and [prepared] by people who have already been irrevocably cut off from Russia, from what is going on here, and from Russia’s order of business,” he said.