By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen. — 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
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
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share
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
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
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share
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
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
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
People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share
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… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share
