The Russia Conundrum

<p><b><i>'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was let's say concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' </i></b><b>Mikhail Khodorkovsky March 2021</b><br><br> Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime - and was punished by the Kremlin stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years.<br><br> Now freed working as a pro-democracy campaigner in enforced exile Khodorkovsky brings us the insider's battle to save his country's soul. Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin <i>The Russia Conundrum</i> maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey from Soviet youth to international oil executive powerful insider to political dissident and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West.<br><br> With unparalleled insight written with <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Martin Sixsmith <i>The Russia Conundrum</i> exposes the desires and damning truths of Putin's Russia and provides an answer to the West on how it must challenge the Kremlin - in order to pave the way for a better future.</p>