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.
Comparing ‘entrenched corruption’ of new wave to that of Khodorkovsky is silly. Khodorkovsky and company were exponentially more corrupt.
Another point is that 90% of Yeltsin-era oligarchs are still in business after adopting to the rile of law.
Modern ‘oligarchs’ are mostly businessmen in a true sense of this word.
He’s just another banished Oligarch.....and the only reason any Russian would ‘soften their view’ of Khodorkovsky is because Putin pardoned him from jail on 20 December 2013 before serving his full jail time.