The Russian opponent is convinced that the end of the Putin era is approaching. In an exclusive interview, he warns the French president against the illusion of a strategic relationship with Putin but calls for tactical negotiations to keep Russia in "the European cultural paradigm".
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LE FIGARO.- The coronavirus crisis, which is far from over in Moscow, will it reinforce the Russian authoritarian and bureaucratic slope and the power of Vladimir Putin, or has it on the contrary shown its weakness and weakened his presidency?
MIKHAÏL KHODORKOVSKI.- In the past twenty years, Putin has created the impression that there is a vertical of power. This vertical existed, according to legend, under Stalin. Basically, at that time, when in Vladivostok or Norilsk, the toilets were blocked, people wrote to the Kremlin to have the solution! It was a myth of course. He had partially disappeared under Yeltsin. Then this myth of the vertical that works came back in force under
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