Methinks someone is losing it completely.
[Soros] I'm in a trap. The people who will buy the shares will make an undoubted profit. But I have no other choice, since the value of the shares will keep falling. For me to sell the holding at its realistic price, the company needs to be privatized. But the state won't take any steps in that direction as long as I have any connection with it.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Mr Putin doesn't like me and that he doesn't like the activities of our foundations, especially in Ukraine and Moldova, to say nothing of Georgia. That is the explanation for the campaign he has mounted on the occasion of my current visit.
Even so, I don't regard today's Russia as a repressive regime. Putin really is very popular. But the characteristic features of an open society are lacking in that country. There is no supremacy of the law. It is replaced by a dictatorship of the law, and there is no parliamentary opposition.