WASHINGTON—Former Russian oil tycoon and prominent critic of the Kremlin Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks forward to the day when Vladimir Putin and the political elite that is empowered with him is gone. He advises in the meantime that the United States and the West in general not make the same mistakes it made in the 1990s in their half-hearted efforts to transition Russia into a democratic, economically modernized state.
Khodorkovsky spoke at the Atlantic Council on June 17, on “Russia’s Strategic Interest with the West,” to an audience that appeared to be mostly Russian.
“Sooner or later, the current system will collapse, and …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
