Alex Gibney’s documentary Citizen K presents the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s rise to prominence and his eventual fall from grace. Yet, there is something amiss in this narrative of the rise and fall of the oligarch – namely, the concept of oligarch and oligarchy itself.
The reality depicted in the film has precious little to do with Hobbes’s ‘common power to keep them all in awe’.
Recent events in Ukraine constituted a genuine revolution in the sense of the self-assertion of popular sovereignty.
On August 17, 2012 three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
