Michail Chodorkowski lachte auf der Konferenz des Antikriegskomitees in Straßburg, nachdem die Entkolonialisierungsaktivistin Lana Pylaeva aus der Republik Komi ihre Rede in ihrer Muttersprache begonnen hatte.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was a former Russian oil oligarch. In the 2000s, he clashed with Putin over the Yukos affair, leading to his imprisonment until 2013. After his release, he gave an interview in which he stated that if the North Caucasus became independent, he would fight against it, as „our ancestors conquered these lands“. In the 1990s, he supported Russian aggression against Chechnya and aided the Russian army. He now opposes Putin’s regime, but also opposes the independence of peoples under Russian control. He is known as an opponent of decolonization and the preservation of Russia in its current form.

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I’m unfortunately not sure that our new govt. would be willing to actually offer any political or financial support to our distant Komi linguistic relatives, and to every other Uralic ethnic group currently being assimilated and Russified in modern Russia, including the two only other Ugric-speaking ethnic groups the Khanty and the Mansi, same goes towards Bashkortostan, which is where historic Magna Hungaria was located, I always had a deep interest and respect towards the Uralic and Turkic peoples of the Volga-Ural region due to our distant historic connections to it. It often feels like the Uralic minorities of Russia don’t really have anything to look towards, while the Turkic minorities are able to somewhat count on each other and the Turkic nation states (war crimes/ethnic cleansing committed by the latter notwithstanding). Hungarian nationalists/far-right itself actually politically/ideologically allied itself with Pan-Turkism and Turanism for a while, particularly within Jobbik and Fidesz.

I’ve heard that the next Finno-Ugric capital of culture in 2027 will be here in Geresdlak, I’ll see it if I’ll be able to visit, and I wonder if TISZA or Magyar himself will attend it, they seem geopolitically much more conscious than Fidesz and Orbán ever were

Maybe provide more details, please? When and where was it? What was she speaking about? What exactly was he laughing about? maybe provide a source?

All I see is two snapshots and almost zero context.

I’m not a Khodorkovsky proponent but I’d like to know at least some facts before jumping to any conclusions. For all I know she said a funny joke and he laughed at it.

Hodorkovsky had political ambitions – that’s the reason putin put him in jail (like most of his other opponents who he did t kill).

But he is no angel, to become a biggest oil oligarch at that time in russia you had to be ruthless. They consolidated multiple oil facilities across russia where their heads were killed. Or at least just stolen or bought at low price.

It was a wild time in russia and no rich person from that time is clean – to survive you had to kill or be killed.

Can someone explain to me what her views are? I ask because a simple search shows she is from part of Russia that has been Russia since well, the concept of Russia existed. Is it just about her wanted cultures and language preserved? Everything was colonized or conquered at some point.

Russian emperialism is so fused with national self identity. Even progressive „good Russians“ seen inside the country as alternative to Putin are natural in it, as it’s breathing.

Thats a single screenshot. He also doesnt look like „laughing“, he is smiling. Which can be for many reasons. What is even the point of this thread?

Ну вы и сборище пидоров, „о май гад он посмеялся как он мог“