Do you think living in russia at the end of the eighties, that you could see the signs that the collapse was on its way? No. And anybody who said they could, i think hindsight is a fantastic gift. I mean, obviously there were signs. But that august 19 91 came as a massive mass of surprise and we kind of over reacted to it. It did, i mean, toa a decade, a really interesting thing. The west partly at fault by not reciprocating his willingness to integrate into ar community. Or more likely, was he mouthing these valuesad and not believing in them?
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky has experienced first hand the wrath of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint before parliamentary elections in 2003, stripped of his oil wealth and jailed on politically motivated charges of fraud and tax evasion after funding opposition parties. Khodorkovsky spent nearly ten years in prison. In September 2022 he came to Intelligence Squared to share his unparalleled insight into the inner workings of Putin’s regime. Drawing from his new book, The Russia Conundrum, Khodorkovsky reveals how Russia really works and how the West can truly begin to blunt the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions. Joining Khodorkovsky in conversation is journalist, co-author of The Russia Conundrum, and former BBC Moscow correspondent Martin Sixsmith. Our host for this discussion is journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4's World Tonight, Ritula Shah.
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