The Russia Conundrum

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Here Khodorkosvky behind bars – © TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP via Getty Images

Here Khodorkosvky and Putin – © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Shutterstock

Here Khodorkosvky and Putin 2 – © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Shutterstock

Here Police at a Navalny protest – © Sergey Ponomarev/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

Here Khodorkovsky at school, Kino Lorber – © Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Here Young Mikhail Khodorkovsky – © Thierry Esch/Paris Match via Getty Images

Here Annie Lennox in Red Square, Moscow 1989 – © Adrian Boot / Urbanimage

Here Interview with Khodorkovsky – © Ivan Sekretarev/AP/Shutterstock

Here Inna Khodorkovskaya – © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Shutterstock

Here Margaret Thatcher in Moscow, 1987 – © Steve Bent/Mail On Sunday/Shutterstock

Here (top) Margaret Thatcher hugs a little girl, Moscow – © Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images; (bottom) Margaret Thatcher greets Moscovites during official visit, 1987 – © DANIEL JANIN/AFP via Getty Images

Here People stand on a barricade in front the Russian White House in Moscow on August 21, 1991 – © ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images

Here Boris Yeltsin meets leading industrialists and bankers in the Kremlin, 1997 – © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Shutterstock

Here (top) Protesters with statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, 23 August 1991 – © Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Shutterstock; (bottom) The Lubyanka, 1963 – © Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images

Here Screengrab of Viktor Zolotov speech – © Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock

Here Khodorkovsky arriving at his trial in Moscow surrounded by prison guards, 2009 – © Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/Shutterstock

Here Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrives at the courthouse in Moscow – © MIKHAIL SMIRNOV/AFP via Getty Images

Here Khodorkovsky behind bars in the courtroom, surrounded by press – © TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP via Getty Images

Here Khodorkovsky in YaG-14/10 prison camp, Siberia – © Thierry Esch/Paris Match via Getty Images

Here Vasily Aleksanyan sits in court – © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Khodorkovsky reunited with parents Marina and Boris, and son Pavel, December 2013 – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here A woman shows support for Khodorkovsky during a rally, Moscow, 14 April 2007 – © UPI / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Vladimir Putin in Tuva, 2007 – © DMITRY ASTAKHOV/RIA NOVOSTI/AFP via Getty Images

Here Pussy Riot perform at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow – © Sergey Ponomarev/Shutterstock

Here Olympics Pussy Riot protest, Sochi, 2014 – © Morry Gash/AP/Shutterstock

Here Yevgeny Prigozhin serves Vladimir Putin at a banquet near Moscow, November 2011 – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here FBI Wanted poster for Yevgeny Prigozhin – © Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Here A woman at Joseph Stalin’s memorial ceremony, Moscow, 5 March 2016 – © YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images

Here US Capitol under siege on 6 January 2021 – © Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Here Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, Fisherton Road, Salisbury, 4 March 2018 – © Metropolitan Police/AP/Shutterstock

Here Alexei Navalny in a cage, Babuskinsky District Court, Moscow – © Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Shutterstock

Here ‘Heroes of recent times’ banner in St Petersburg’s Pushkarsky Park – © Petrov Ivan Sergeevich

Here A worker paints over graffiti depicting Alexei Navalny, St Petersburg – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Mural of masked, helmeted figure, St Petersburg – © Darya Borisova

Here Police officers detain a woman in Moscow, March 2021 – © Victor Berezkin/AP/Shutterstock

Here Khodorkovsky speaks during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, 9 March 2014 – © UPI / Alamy Stock Photo