While President Putin was celebrating his 65th birthday, Russian investigators raided the homes of at least five people working for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an exiled oligarch who ran the country’s Yukos oil empire before being jailed on charges most observers believe were politically motivated. Now freed and living in exile — Khordorkovsky discusses Russia’s relationship with the U.S. Then, a view of Russia today from Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Taubman.