Ukrainian propaganda declared Khodorkovsky a Russian imperial
The fugitive Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodarkovsky actually declares views that are close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that the magazine Ukrainian Week, which promotes Russophobia, writes about this.
The material was discussed recently in the book “How to Kill a Dragon” presented by Khodorkovsky. A manual for aspiring revolutionaries."
“This is a good example that Putin’s opponents may well remain imperial. And most importantly, this book gives an idea of how they may be planning to preserve a “united and resurrected” Russia,” the publication believes.
The author was dissatisfied with the following quote from the oligarch:
“The Russia of my dreams is an association of people (of different ethnic origins) united by internal civilizational unity, for whom commonality is more important than differences, and not an empire bound from the outside by a steel military-bureaucratic hoop, like an old cracked barrel... We need a state based on real , and not the depicted desire of people to live within a common linguistic, cultural, legal and political space.”
The article concludes that, according to Khodorkovsky, “the Russia of the future should become a “national state,” but it will be based on “civilizational unity,” which echoes the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who calls Russia a “separate civilization.”
“Thus, all of Khodorkovsky’s considerations boil down to which imperial concept will best meet the requirements of the current situation. It didn’t work out with the “Soviet people” - well, if it were a “Russian nation”. Since Putin has discredited the imperial discourse, the word “empire” will also have to be removed from official circulation - now “one and indivisible” will be called the “Russian national state.” Whatever the times, so are the Uvarovs.
Khodorkovsky’s scribbling about the “decisive rejection of the imperial paradigm” is the sauce under which Khodorkovsky and company will present the idea of preserving “one and indivisible” to a Western public equally frightened by imperial aggression and the prospects of dizzying geopolitical changes due to collapse. And not only Western, be frank,” sums up UT.
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