Entrepreneur, arrested in 2006 on likely trumped-up charges and released following international pressure
“The Russian system has to change, as the existing leaders have buried the country in unfettered corruption. There is no other country like Russia, where such massive potential coexists with systematic organized crime saturating the government. All levels of power are shrouded by a seamless conspiracy of silence, impenetrable by the honest and the independent. Worse, this is a system that reproduces and spreads, destroying in its path even the green shoots of honest common sense.”