Every politician deep inside is authoritarian. If the person doesn't have ambition, that's not a politician. Society needs to put every ambitious, every effective politician into such a position that it helps - that this person helps improve society. That's… — 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
