LONDON — When it comes to relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky has blunt advice for Europe: Wake up — and stop playing nice.
The former billionaire chief of Yukos Oil, once Russia’s richest man, spent 10 years in prison on fraud and tax evasion charges that were widely viewed as political retribution by the Kremlin, and now marshals opposition forces through his democracy and human rights organization Open Russia. He told POLITICO that European leaders are naïve to think it is possible to negotiate with Putin’s Kremlin, and that any easing of economic sanctions would be a grave mistake.
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Source: European Voice
