This one from 2003 brought back a different time. It was written at a time when Putin almost had to be introduced as to who he was. It was written on how this whole guy is a temporary blip in the system, trying to reach out and grab power, but how the system is fighting back. It talks about Russian elections being contested, or even mattering. The main guy of the tale, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was once Russia’s richest man after accumulating an oil empire. The story was written after he’d been arrested for corruption and details how he never really feared jail, probably because he never though it’d pass.
Interesting times I guess.
Now the same guy lives in Europe somewhere and the company he founded was broken up for parts. The other guy needs no introduction nor does politics in Russia need a whole lot of words to explain what is going on.