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Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia?
« on: November 23, 2014, 05:16:24 PM »
A very good lecture.  Long, but lots of information.





Here also is an interview with the author -


http://ukrainianweek.com/Columns/50/124082


Dr. Dawisha has authored several scholarly works on Russia.  Her latest book was to be published in the UK, but her publishers refused to publish it, so it was published in the US.
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Re: Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2014, 05:57:28 PM »


Here also is an interview with the author -


http://ukrainianweek.com/Columns/50/124082



Stating  "Russia's objective is to increase the split between Europe and the US."   Again, to prevent Putin from attaining this goal, the US must play a secondary role in this conflict with Europe doing the heavy lifting. 

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Re: Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia?
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2014, 02:09:48 AM »
A good investigative piece about the connection between Russia's state assets and those who benefit from them.


http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/russia/
After the fall of communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltsin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. - Gerard Batten

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Billion-dollar medical project helped fund “Putin’s palace”
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2014, 02:31:52 AM »

Billion-dollar medical project helped fund “Putin’s palace” on the Black Sea

Part 1: Two associates of President Vladimir Putin profited from a state scheme to buy expensive medical equipment - and sent money to Swiss bank accounts linked to a property known as “Putin’s palace”

MOSCOW - In 2005, President Vladimir Putin personally ordered up a vast programme to improve Russia’s poor healthcare facilities. Five years later, authorities found that suppliers were charging some hospitals two or even three times too much for vital gear such as high-tech medical scanners.

Dmitry Medvedev, serving as Putin’s hand-picked successor at the time, went on national television to denounce the alleged scam. The perpetrators, he said, had engaged in “absolutely cynical, loutish theft of state money.” Medvedev instructed Russia’s top law enforcement agencies to make sure that “everyone who participated in this is seriously and sternly punished.”

Suspects were rounded up in far-flung places, and in 2012 the police ministry said 104 people had been charged in connection with overpriced scanners. Several local officials and business executives were convicted of fraud and sent to prison.

But a Reuters investigation has found that two wealthy associates of Putin engaged in the same profiteering and suffered no penalty.

They sold medical equipment for at least $195 million to Russia and sent a total of $84 million in proceeds to Swiss bank accounts, according to bank records reviewed by Reuters. The records also indicate that at least 35 million euros ($48 million) from those accounts were funnelled to a company that then helped construct a luxury property near the Black Sea known as “Putin’s palace” - a nickname earned after a businessman alleged that the estate was built for Putin. The Russian leader has denied any connection to the property.

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/russia/

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/russia/#article-1-subsidising-a-palace
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Re: Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia?
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2014, 02:35:47 AM »
A good investigative piece about the connection between Russia's state assets and those who benefit from them.


http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/russia/

Excellent series  --this has a lot of information that summarises many areas of Russian incompetence,
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