During the 1990s under Yeltsin, business was operated in an environment where entrepreneurship was simultaneously legalized by new economic laws and criminalized by existing criminal law, creating enormous legal risk for entrepreneurs.
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Mikhail KhodorkovskyEvidence Quote
“well just think about it yourselves on the one hand there is this law about this new economy new Enterprises where you could actually go into private business es and at the same time there is a criminal law where it says that if you actually work in business and are an entrepreneur this is criminalized as a criminal offense and you could actually end up being in prison for many years”
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How The West Can Stop Putin, with Exiled Critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Intelligence Squared— Intelligence SquaredCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:56:34 PM
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