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Why does he have moral authority among Russian liberals? Because he was on the wrong side of Putin? Did he not make billions off the collapse of the Soviet Union? What makes him different from the other oligarchs, other than Putin jailing him? - Amith On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Thomas Campbell via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > *Also, it's apparently published by the mouthpiece of a New York-based > thinktank run by the family of one of Russia's oligarchs, namely Mikhail > Khodorkovsky's son Pavel. > > - Amith > > The original article was published in Russian on a website called > "Chetvertaya vlast" (Fourth Estate): > > http://vlada.io/levyie-druzya-novorossii/ > > Who is "behind" Fourth Estate, I have no idea. The Interpreter just > translated the article into English and posted it. They post lots of stuff, > some things useful and interesting, some things quite biased. > > It's odd that you refer to Khodorkovsky as "one of Russia's oligarchs" > without referring what Putin did to him. The fact that he didn't flee the > country and did his prison time means that he is not just "one of Russia's > oligarchs" anymore (in fact he's not an oligarch at all anymore), but > someone with a certain amount of moral authority among many Russians, > especially those of a liberal bent. > > But in cayse article wasn't written by a Russian oligarch or liberal, but > by a Ukrainian anarchist named Alexander Volodarsky who usually knows what > he's talking about. > > And speaks both languages used in Ukraine. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
