What Happens When You Confront Putin in Public

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In 2003, Russia’s richest man stood up in a room full of oligarchs and accused Vladimir Putin of enabling corruption. Ten months later, he was on trial for crimes that would keep him locked up for over a decade. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Unsplash Mitya Aleshkovsky / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited DedaSasha / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Elena Ternovaja / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Kremlin.ru / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons – Edited (multiple images) PressCenter Khodorkovsky & Lebedev / CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Gennady Grachev / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited (multiple images) U.S. Air Force / Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Kenneth C. Zirkel / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Video Credits: Source: Deror Avi / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Source: Kremlin.ru / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Edited Source: RIA Novosti (2013) – used under fair use - Edited Music Credits: Penguin History Sources: "Khodorkovsky Closing Statement at the Khamovnichesky Court, Moscow" – 27 October 2010 - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty "A Normal Country: Russia after Communism" (Shleifer & Treisman, Journal of Economic Perspectives) - Winter 2005 (Vol. 19, No. 1) "Corruption in Russia: Past, Present and Future" (Liam Anderson, chapter in Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective) - published 2012 (often cited as 2013) Wright State University - Research - wright.academia.edu "The Troubled Face of Russian Business" – The Economist – 17 July 2003 "Corruption in Russia" (ResearchGate upload) – February 2013 (Anderson’s chapter version) "Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie" – The Nation / Lucy Komisar – 22 January 2020 "Other Victims" – Khodorkovsky.com resources page – timeline spans 2003–2014, accessed in 2025 "Michael Khodorkovsky – Jeff Cunningham (Medium article)" - 1 November 2017 "The Yukos Affair" – Anthony Robinson – 16 June 2005 - jstor.org