Mikhail Khodorkovski receives in his London offices, a discreet address in a opulent district of the center of the British capital. At 61, the former Oligarch and boss of the oil group Ioukos, who has become one of the main Russian opponents of Putin, has been refugee in the United Kingdom since he was pardoned by the latter, at the end of 2013, after ten years in prison. Gray hair cut short, he has this same fine face as in the photographs of twenty years ago, when, brutally fallen, he faced the judges in his fraud trial, largely considered political.
Tuesday, March 4, a few hours after US President Donald Trump announced the suspension of American aid to Ukraine, he shares with the World And three other European media its reflections on the crisis of the transatlantic relationship and reading errors, its point of view, Europeans and Ukrainians on the practices of the American and Russian presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
For the one who was the richest man in Russia in the early 2000s and, at the time, close to the Kremlin“Europeans really didn’t understand Putin and Trump. They are leaders of a particular kind. Imagine that the British Prime Minister announces that he wants to acquire Greenland. We will take him for a madman or we will expect him to send the British army. Nothing like with Trump: what he says is just words, often subterfuges to distract people. ”
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