The following is a translation of an article written by Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in Friday’s edition of Vedomosti.

А TURN TO THE LEFT, 3 – Global perestroika

By Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Published in Vedomosti

Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential elections is not simply the latest change of power in one individual country, albeit a superpower. We are standing on the threshold of a change in the paradigm of world development. The era whose foundations were laid by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher three decades ago is ending. Unconditionally including myself in that part of society that has liberal views, I see: ahead – is a Turn to the Left.

Chance and necessity

In recent times I have been getting more and more questions from the broadest range of people: do I consider that the Kremlin has armed itself with the ideology of my articles «A Turn to the Left» and «A Turn to the Left-2»? The authors mention the “priority national projects”, and the “leftification” of official rhetoric, and even the notorious «programme-2020» (certain propositions of which really did appear in «A Turn to the Left-2» three years ago).

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