Russia faces violent revolution if it doesn’t embrace democracy, billionaire Putin challenger declares
Reuters
Jan 17, 2012 – 10:05 AM ET | Last Updated: Jan 17, 2012 11:06 AM ET
By Chrystia Freeland and Steve Gutterman
Translation by Autumnson Blog
俄羅斯大亨米哈伊爾•普羅霍羅夫2012年1月13日在莫斯科，在一項收集簽名作其總統競選的活動期間說。參選人必須收集二百萬個簽名，以參加定於2012年3月4日即將舉行的總統選舉
MOSCOW — Mikhail Prokhorov, a super-rich tycoon challenging Vladimir Putin for Russia’s presidency in March, said his country faced the danger of violent revolution if it did not break conservative resistance and move quickly to democracy.
莫斯科 - 一個在3月挑戰普京作俄羅斯總統的超級富豪大亨米哈伊爾•普羅霍羅夫，說他的國家面臨暴力革命的危險，如果它不打破保守的抗力並迅速移向民主。
Prokhorov, a billionaire bachelor long seen more as playboy than politician, told The Freeland File on reuters.com Russians had shaken off a post-Soviet apathy and were now “just crazy about politics.” He denied accusations he was a Kremlin tool, let into the race to split the opposition and lend democratic legitimacy to a vote Putin seems almost certain to win.
普羅霍羅夫是一位億萬富翁單身漢，長期被視為花花公子多於政治家，告訴路透社.com上的弗里蘭文件，俄羅斯已擺脫蘇聯解體後的冷漠，及現在是“剛好對政治瘋狂。”他否認指控他是克里姆林宮的工具，被讓路進入競賽以分裂反對派和增添民主的合法性，來表決幾乎穩操勝券的普京。
Putin is seeking to return to the Kremlin and rule until at least 2018, but protests against alleged fraud in a December 4 parliamentary vote have exposed growing discontent with the system he has dominated for 12 years.
“What worked before does not work now. Look in the streets. People are not happy,” Prokhorov, 46, said in the interview beneath the windowed dome that soars above his spacious office on a central Moscow boulevard close to the Kremlin.
“It is time to change,” said Prokhorov, ranked by Forbes magazine as Russia’s third-richest person, with an $18-billion metals-to-banking empire that includes the New Jersey Nets basketball team in the United States.
“Stability at any price is no longer acceptable for Russians.”
But Prokhorov made clear he considers revolution equally unacceptable for a country with grim memories of a century of hardship, war and upheaval starting with Vladimir Lenin’s 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, instead calling for “very fast evolution.”
“I am against any revolution, because I know the history of Russia. Every time we have revolution, it was a very bloody period,” he said.
The son of a Soviet sports official, Prokhorov has a basketball player’s 204-cm (6-foot-8) frame, a narrow face and a head of short-cut hair graying around the edges. In a dark suit and blue shirt that looked modest for a
Russian tycoon, he sat straight and spoke in English.
Public political consciousness is on the rise after years of apathy. The Soviet mentality is fading as a generation of Russians who “don’t know who Lenin was” grows up, he said. The country was finally ripe for change.
“We now have all the pieces in place to move very fast to being a real democracy,” Prokhorov said.
But he suggested there was a mounting battle in the ruling elite between liberals like himself and conservatives “ready to pay any price” to maintain the status quo. Russia, he said, could face a bloody revolution if opponents of reform prevail.
“If there are no changes in Russia, from day to day this risk will increase,” Prokhorov said. “Because 15, 20 percent of the population, the most active ones living in the big cities, want to live in a democratic country.”
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