"I think many Russians, but also a lot of Westerners, make a very serious mistake in trying to look for… a better person to become president. They are searching for such a person in [Alexei] Navalny, in myself, but that’s a mistake. Anyone who replaces Putin is going to take Russia along the same imperialist route."
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, "'He has embarked on a war he can't stop': Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Putin’s next move", The New Statesman (3 May 2022).
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