I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
If we talk about changes of power in Russia, that has occurred several times in the past century. After Stalin came Khrushchev, who implemented… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault.… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long but erroneous… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
