Five-year plan in prison

On 25 October of the year 2003 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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On 27 October of the year 2005 the press-center of the lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky issued a statement from Mikhail Khodorkovsky (in Russian and English). In it, in part, was said: “Our country is facing great challenges. It is necessary to move the program for Russian development into the 21st century. It is necessary to build the army and law-enforcement system anew. To create from the ground up another bureaucracy that is interested in the fate of both state and society, rather than in unrestrained personal enrichment. It is necessary to abandon the fatal path of Russia’s transformation into an official source of raw material and make a decisive turn towards the new “knowledge economy.” It is necessary to keep as part of Russia the Far East and Siberia, which may fall under China’s control within a few years. It is necessary to rebuild Russia’s place and image in the world, which have been lost as a result of the lack of professionalism and sometimes of direct betrayal.”

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