Who Is Who In Russian Elites

Another question is why Putin and his circle have so far allowed open enemies of the strong Russian state to hold key posts in the government bodies.

As ex-libertarian can explain my point of view. I think it’s because so-called “siloviki” in majority are authoritarian leftist. And you can not build a strong economy with marxist ideology unless it’s Gulag-like system. Explanation! Gulag is the pure communism: no money, no private property, state gives you food and clothes while you are working in communes. So you can do nothing without economists who are understanding how laissez-faire works.
PS “siloviki” comes from Russian world “sila” which means “force”. In this particular case “siloviki” means all the representatives of the army, law enforcement, FSB, prosecutors, investigation committee, national guard etc.

Most of them look Anglosaxon rather than Slavic

These should pay for new Russian super weapons…

” Putin regime ” ?????
Who wrote this? Ah, it doesn’t matter. This article should be presented to the president of usa as a manual for MAGA.

keep your enemies closer. with the west slapping sanctions, Russians feel they are attacked hence they build anti-western sentiments which causes such pro-western Russian politicians get discredited and hated by Russians. since the pro-western block of Russian politicians gets a blockade due to sanctions which makes them not attaining their goals,it gives them no choice than working hard to bypass sanctions which in turn it makes Russia economy resilient to western sanctions and make it self sufficient.in a long political game of chess, pro-western faction will fade as more nationalistic politicians get groomed and attain positions with people’s support. another reason you should never judge PUTIN softly without critical thinking.

Representativeline up of those who I call ruzionic “elites”.

@Southfront: Thank you! In the last weeks you provided some articles such as this one, where you take a more critical look at Russia and Putin. This is the best protection against the MSM allegations of you being biased pro-kremlin source.

As i said before, while most Russians i know personally certainly approve Putins foreign policy in general, his pro-liberal bias is mostly despised. While i don’t want to draw the conclusion that the Russians i know are representative for whole Russia, most polls confirm this. Dont believe me? Look at the so called Pension reform and the debate. That Putin tries to blame Medvedjev for this is laughable when everyone knows that it is Putin who pulls the strings.

Do i think that there is an alternative for Putin now? No.
But does his protection of neo-“liberal” oligarchs need to be criticized? Of course!!
And that Putin also values Israel as a more important “Partner” than his official allys Iran+Syria, is now understood by most neutral observers.
How guys like the Saker still believe Putin would be against his neoliberal friends and against Israels aggressions, speaks of their ignorance and hypocrisy.
And to expect that Putin would be anti-Neo-liberal when in fact he owes his rise 100% to the “liberals” and Yeltsin clique, is speaking volumes about the delusions of many..
Maybe the current broad opposition against putins neoliberal “reforms” that are shared throughout the whole of russian society will lead Putin to change course, and finally fight the oligarchic cliques that hold the Russian people down.
And if now, maybe a leader will emerge that not only has a foreign policy that defends Russian interests, BUT ALSO protects the Russian people from oligarchic parasites and their political protegees.
Lets hope..

The main task of Putin is to protect and to improve the military-industrial-energy complex of Russia in order to create a powerful armed forces… to preserve Russia…. second task to improve the economic and financial system…third to Invest in I+D and comercial networks…and Putin has made a good Job along these years….for other side…The growth of economic activity always entails the appearance of corrupt…as we have seen in Spain, Baltic countries, east of Europe, Italy..etc…if the judiciary acts againts them..its a sign that things are going well!

My understanding is that the PM elects the ministers not the President who elects the PM only. Putin is in a catch 22 situation but any charges and convictions against individuals is a positive move.

Putin must arrest them all seize all their assets ASAP and put them on public but fair trial and use their money to give grants an loans to encourage small and medium sized Russian businesses. This will be done immediately after control of the Russian central bank is restored to Russia and all Zio media outlets are seized and sold to Russian only private for profit and public and not for profit companies in open bidding. Oh and the Zio Russian zio mafia is totally destroyed in a massive country wide operation by all security forces and the army in a massive operation

Most of the thinking here assumes that Putin is more powerful than he is. He doesn’t even control half of the power in Russia, including the banks, which are always on the Rothschild side. If he was as powerful as most think Medvedev would have been history a long time ago.

No country that is using money is ever going to be free of coruption and traitors.
https://www.thevenusproject.com/

Until Russian politics. media. schools and historians publish in very wide manner a history of Khazaria Empire and consequences of their conversion to judaism and later fall of empire, there will be no progress. More blabs, more appeasement to https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f3bf64ba45cf4a93687a21b4144816440e3949add2ed3dc77f0093018b5cac2.jpg war criminal “Israel” etc.

The following article sheds good light on an un/lesser known reality among the elite of Russia.

The Russian assets in the west could be divided into New Money, assets of Putin’s people, and the Old Money, assets of Yeltsin’s people. The sanctions are supposed to deal with Putin’s people, but Russian experts think the Old Money is more vulnerable, for a good reason. The New Money is under Putin’s protection. If the US or any other western authority grabs it, the Russian government may seize Western shares in Russian companies and properties.

But what about the Old Money? Its owners, elder oligarchs, are extremely worried about Putin’s nonchalance. Putin takes it easy, they say. Ma’alish, the Arab in Putin says. Que sera sera, says his inner Frenchman. And this nonchalant attitude drives the oligarchs crazy. They want him to fight and save their money. They insisted on his meeting with President Trump in Vietnam; some say the meeting took place in the depth of the night, far from prying eyes, and didn’t bring results. Now Putin says to the Old Money: if you want to save your money, repatriate it to Russia. We aren’t that mad, they reply. You have to defend us anyway! That was the Deal!

Now we are coming to a difficult part. The Deal. Connected people, in-the-know, claim that a top-secret agreement was reached between the late Mr Yeltsin and his cronies, on one side, and The West, on the other side, in 1991. Yeltsin et al had sold Russia’s interests down the river, and in return, The West allowed the bastards to hoard their ill-gotten gains in the Western financial system. Yeltsin et al had promised to let the Soviet republics go; to disarm; to follow the Washington Consensus, i.e. to stick to the liberal economic model; to allow the free import of consumer goods; to allow Western access to the Russian military complex; to let the West write Russian laws; to permit the free outflow of capital from Russia. The West promised to bring investment, to let Russia live in peace, to keep NATO away from Russian borders.

Mr Putin inherited The Deal. Slowly, the Deal has been eroded from both sides. NATO troops moved eastward, no sizeable investment came in, the West supported Chechen rebels. Russia limited Western access to its military-industrial complex; took Crimea; regained some of its international independence.

Putin was elected, or you may say, he was appointed to stick to the Deal and to serve as the Supreme Arbiter among the oligarchs, with very little of a power base of his own. Slowly, he created his own oligarchs (they are described as “siloviki”, though not all of them have some security forces background), and he had built up a limited power base; though many important positions, in particular in the economic sphere, remained in the hands of the Old Guard, Yeltsin’s men. This, too, was a part of the Deal.

The powerful personalities of Yeltsin’s era remained embedded in the upper echelons of Putin’s state. Chubais and Kudrin were and are untouchable. They are connected with the FRS and the IMF, they go to Bilderberg and Davos, they are often described as ‘the colonial administration’. They steal with both hands, and do it with impunity. Just last week it was revealed and published that Mr Chubais and Mr Kudrin appropriated a cool billion dollars of Russian state money while repaying the Soviet debt to the Czech Republic. The worst Putin can do about them is to give them a fat chunk of the Russian economy to chew on, while limiting their access to the rest. So he gave Mr Chubais the Rusnano company that made no profit but embezzled billions. This was the Deal.

Yeltsin’s oligarchs remained as rich as they were; Yeltsin’s family still possesses immense riches. And Putin does not dare to touch them. He goes hat in hand to open a Yeltsin’s Memorial Centre; he is courteous with Yeltsin’s widow and daughter. Putin’s establishment cautiously avoided celebration, or even mention of the Revolution centenary, in keeping with Yeltsin’s anticommunism. This is the Deal.

The Rich Also Cry
http://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-rich-also-cry/