The following is a translation of a rare interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky by the French newspaper Le Figaro. See the original source here. “When Russia is wrong, Europe must say so” Interview by Laure Mandeville Le Figaro September 20-21, 2008 INTERVIEW – “Le Figaro” has obtained the first interview granted to the French press by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon imprisoned in Siberia. His lawyers provided us his written answers to our questions. For five years, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon who made his fortune in the tumultuous and dangerous waters of the 1990s, has been serving a nine-year prison sentence following a highly politicized trial and conviction for “grand scale tax evasion”.