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Interview by
Anna Arutiunova
Russia Profile
02/06/2012
NEW YORK/The protests against alleged election fraud currently sweeping across Russia also extend to the Russian diaspora, well beyond the country’s borders. Russians the world over took to the streets on February 4, albeit in much smaller numbers. The demonstration held across from the Russian Consulate in New York City drew only about a hundred people, but it had all the attributes of a real protest: the speeches, the music, the white ribbons and balloons, the slogans. It also drew those who have been personally wronged by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s regime, among them Pavel Khodorkovsky, the 26-year-old son of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia Profile Executive Editor Anna Arutiunova spoke to Pavel Khodorkovsky about the current political situation in the country and about its future prospects, to which the fate of his father is undeniably tied.
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Interview by
Anna Arutiunova
Russia Profile
02/06/2012
NEW YORK/The protests against alleged election fraud currently sweeping across Russia also extend to the Russian diaspora, well beyond the country’s borders. Russians the world over took to the streets on February 4, albeit in much smaller numbers. The demonstration held across from the Russian Consulate in New York City drew only about a hundred people, but it had all the attributes of a real protest: the speeches, the music, the white ribbons and balloons, the slogans. It also drew those who have been personally wronged by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s regime, among them Pavel Khodorkovsky, the 26-year-old son of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia Profile Executive Editor Anna Arutiunova spoke to Pavel Khodorkovsky about the current political situation in the country and about its future prospects, to which the fate of his father is undeniably tied.© Russia Profile, 2011