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There are people who are at f...

There are people who are at fault for one or another problem. These people are very avaricious and self-serving. They're not doing it just to do it; they're doing it for the money. That money, they keep here. When you say, "We're going to find these people, these guilty people, the ones who are not only breaking laws but are also hurting their own fellow country people," and you say, "We're going to punish them, specifically, that's a step in the right direction."

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Putin doesn't conduct electio...

Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. The Russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. Here, in the West, the impression that people have is that Putin runs the whole country. This is not so, at all. To a certain extent, you could say that he runs the Kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the Kremlin, or the people around him running him.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

The structure of the company ...

The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

And so, now things that are i...

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

People expect some kinds of d...

People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Russian people really don't l...

Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Large companies cannot finance...

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

I have to travel a lot, but re...

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

I knew President Yeltsin well....

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

My father was a construction e...

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Large companies cannot finance...

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Fortunes are made, and disappe...

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

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The right to private property ...

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Today, a skilled manager makes...

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

I have to travel a lot, but re...

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

Russia on its path has oftenti...

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

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Putin doesn't need Donbass (ea...

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

To admit guilt for nonexistent...

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

The structure of the company i...

The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

A left turn in the fate of Rus...

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 25 quotes

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