FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 file photo former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind glass at a court room in Moscow, Russia. President Vladimir Putin says he will pardon jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky after more than a decade in prison. Putin told reporters after his marathon news conference Thursday Dec. 19, 2013, that Khodorkovsky submitted an appeal for pardon and he intends to grant it. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)Via Steve Gutterman and Annika Breidthardt MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil multi-millionaire jailed for a decade after criticizing Vladimir Putin, used to be freed by way of a presidential pardon on Friday and immediately flew to Berlin the place he hoped to be reunited along with his domestic. As soon as Russia’s richest man, the 50-yr-old appeared pale and skinny but satisfied in a photograph of him being greeted through German neatly-wishers on the tarmac after landing on a private jet. President Putin, who surprised Russians and happy the business group by announcing Khodorkovsky’s pardon on Thursday, stated he was appearing out of “principles of humanity”. A Russian government supply said releasing his absolute best-known and doubtlessly most powerful critic may deflect international complaints about Putin’s human rights document as Russia prepares to host the Iciness Olympics at Sochi in seven weeks time.