Correspondence between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Boris Akunin

October 1, 2008

In October 2008, the Russian version of Esquire magazine published a lengthy series of letters exchanged between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Boris Akunin, an activist and writer (under the pen name Grigory Chkhartishvili), where the two discuss many interpretations of Russia’s transition in the 1990s and the future of democracy for the country.

Khodorkovsky-Akunin Correspondence