Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Kasyanov, Mikhail

“President Putin had no desire to see a politically active figure at the head of the business community. I don’t think Khodorkovsky was planning a coup but by then any attempt to express an independent opinion was seen as a call to revolt”

Mikhail Kasyanov, Former Prime Minister of Russia, opposition leader, Sobesednik, October 21, 2009