Russia Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Navalny is doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Gudkov is a doing a very important thing in his…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky