Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Bohm, Michael

“The Yukos scam was ‘legal nihilism’ par excellence, but most Russians have a completely different version of the event. The Kremlin’s 180-degree PR spin on the Yukos nationalization should be a case study for any nation aspiring to create a Ministry of Truth. As Putin explained in his December call-in show, the Yukos affair was not government expropriation at all, but a way to give money that Yukos ‘stole from the people’ back to the people by helping them buy new homes and repair old ones. Putin, it turns out, is also Russia’s Robin Hood”

Michael Bohm, Opinion page editor of The Moscow Times, The Moscow Times,  February 1, 2010