Talk about shilling for a crook.
Once a booster of Russian capitalism, the 42-year-old former billionaire is now calling for a "left turn" toward massive social spending, endearing him to Russia's still-numerous communist voters
Capitalism? Hardly. Capitalists are the likes of the owners of Vimplecom or Baltica who built factories, made honost business practices and earned real money. This man, along with his bunch are nothing but crooks who worked through the Yeltsin government to steal anything and everything that wasn't nailed down and kill off quite a few people who stood in their way, along with 500+ parlimentarians and aids by backing Yeltsin's seige of Parliment when it refused to go along with the oligarchical fire sale.
Oh and by the way, another one of these scum, Berezovsky, gave the Communist party $6 million during the last elections, from his exile in Britian. He also gave millions to islamic radicals in Chechnya, but who's counting?
Khodorkovsky killed people? Who, exactly? And why hasn't he been charged with murder?
I'd be curious to hear the answers from our resident member of the Putin family.
About his politival programme: He promised the public (if he's elected President) that he'll improve social system in such manner that Russia will have additional 80 mln of population during short time. Given the current figire is 145 mln, Khodorkovsky himself, as a rich man, should have 100 children while he currently has only three. I think he'll need three more wives... like a Muslim.