Ideologies / Oligarchist / Mikhail Khodorkovsky
§ The minds · b. 1963 · Russia · Oligarch
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Yukos
The oligarch who challenged the throne.
Economic+80
SocialistMarket
Governance+66
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−18
TraditionalProgressive
The richest of Russia's oligarchs, whose Yukos empire embodied 1990s plutocracy — and whose imprisonment marked the moment the state reasserted command over the men who thought they owned it.
social
Modernising-traditional; later a reform advocate.
economic
Built Russia's largest oil company from privatisation.
governance
Wielded immense private economic power — until the state crushed him.
Notable for
- Built Yukos oil
- Russia's richest man
- Imprisoned after challenging the Kremlin
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