'Back at your home, the police went out of control [and] are throwing people in jail,' Mr. Putin said.

普京说，在你的国家，警察失去了控制，正把人往监狱里扔，但那就是他们的工作。

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Putin only needed to jail one oligarch (Khodorkovsky) in order to intimidate all the rest.

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Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who pre-empted the verdict by calling Mr Khodorkovsky a thief who belonged in jail, thought Russians would swallow it.

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