A little more than a decade ago, for instance, I spoke to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at that moment the richest man in Russia. ???If a man is not an oligarch, something is not right with him,??? Khodorkovsky told me. ???Everyone had the same starting conditions, everyone could have done it.??? By the way, just because Khodorkovsky is an SOB does not mean that his jailer, Mr. Putin, is not an SOB-squared.