Billionaire Russian Tycoon: Give Vladimir Putin Another Chance To Reform Russia

"I'd rather say he deserves to be given a chance. Why not expect that he would again do the U-turn and come to the policies which were before 2004, that was 4 years, when he has done a lot of good things in the economy of this country, in foreign policy, in helping United States in Afghanistan --a lot of good things before through whatever reason he changed. Probably he just wanted to strike with his own rule ...

If you don’t want to listen to me, listen to John Kerry! The day before yesterday, he said we now see that Moscow is changing its stance in the Eastern Ukraine. And if it goes ahead probably sanctions will be lifted ...  I would not be inclined to think the Putin would necessarily move the country further on into isolation and it would be suicidal from what we started and it would suicidal for him and for the country."