In the 1990s Saint Petersburg under the mayor Anatoly Sobchak was a gangster town similar to Chicago in the 1930s, and Putin's role was to establish relations between criminal gangs and law enforcement agencies, which were themselves indistinguishable from gangsters.
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Mikhail KhodorkovskyEvidence Quote
“he went to work for the mayor of Saint Petersburg at the time Mr soft Chuckles to Chicago America in Russia at the time was similar to Chicago in the 1930s a gangster town foreign task was to establish relations between criminal gangs of Saint Petersburg and also the law enforcement agencies of Saint Petersburg”
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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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