Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company away, sold it, and gave it to other people, and enriched them. So, he's a complicated figure as an opposition leader, and people admire him - he was in prison, and he was very brave, and he's written some good things since then, and so on. But at the end of the day, people see him as being part of the corrupt system that has done so much to undermine the Russian system since the 1990s, and I don't know that he can ever be a really popular leader.
Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with … - Anne Applebaum
Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with …
- Anne Applebaum
The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem. - Anne Applebaum
The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one… - Anne Applebaum
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one…
I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading and more and more peopl… - Anne Applebaum
I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading and more and more peopl…
Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't try to charm or persuade. He ju… - Anne Applebaum
Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't try to charm or persuade. He ju…
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibi… - Anne Applebaum
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibi…
The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Co… - Anne Applebaum
The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Co…
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy … - Anne Applebaum
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy …
Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that eco… - Anne Applebaum
Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that eco…
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