Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Jailed ex-Yukos chief critical of Putin but optimisitc about Russia's future

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon now jailed in Russia, said in an interview published Thursday that the rule of law in his country has suffered under President Vladimir Putin and is unlikely to improve under his successor.

But Khodorkovsky, ex-owner of the now-dismantled oil giant Yukos, told the Financial Times it is "not possible" for Russia to return to the darkest days of its Soviet past because even Putin's government understands that businesses need access to technology and the outside world to thrive.

"People can leave freely; the Internet works," the Financial Times quoted Khodorkovsky as saying Wednesday during a …

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