[caww]

Here's Khodorkovsky speaking at the Atlantic Council in 2015... of all places!

He hates Putin as much as the Denorats hate Trump! Putin kicked him out and froze his assests....He still dreams of being Presidnt of Russia....

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I watched the documentary in theater today. It puts forward the idea that, while Russians do not see Khodorkovsky as someone with a political future that 1) his decade in jail and 2) the entrenched corruption of the new wave of oligarchs established by Putin — have softened people’s views on Khodorkovsky.

But they’d never vote for him or anything like that.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Putin pardoned several high-profile prisoners in 2013 as a publicity stunt to win the good graces of Western leaders he invited to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

* To add it was also to alleviate the domestic fallout from the protests against him that had dominated headlines earlier in the year when hundreds of thousands of protests took the streets upon his return to power to replace Dmitry Medvedev after taking a ‘break.’

The Sochi plus Crimea grab later on were ploys to revamp his relationship to the public.