This principled position had only one flaw.
It was categorically not supported by either the Ukrainians, the Caucasians, or the Balts - by any of the non-Russian peoples of Russia. At best, someone could come to terms with her. But the idea of Great Russia simply could not captivate, let alone force, fight and die for it. This is an elementary truth, but on the awareness of it among the "titular" nations of the former empires.
And this battle is already underway before our eyes, including between the power structures. Between the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs with throwing the losers out of the windows of the pre-trial detention center, go to their 22-year sentences. Between Zolotov and other security officials demanding the head of Kadyrov from Putin. Read the "Gospel According to the Executioner" by the Weiner brothers about the last months of Stalin's life. A very similar picture.
Few noticed that on June 15, Putin unexpectedly appointed his "direct line" of communication with the people. Everyone had already forgotten about her, deciding that he had abandoned this exhausted PR move. He has nothing to brag about now. And suddenly a direct line is being held on June 15, three days after the all-Russian protest march, which by all expectations will be even more massive and successful than March 26.
Ban and abolish all scientific titles I believe that scientific titles should be abolished as well. Conscientious scientists will also suffer, but on the other hand, the reputation and respect of colleagues and students will not go away from these scientists. And Medinsky now has nothing left at all, except for a worthless certificate and public humiliation ...
The permission of the Russian authorities for the opposition to hold an anti-corruption rally on June 12 across the country and, at the same time, the intentions to disperse it, testify to the inevitable serious conflict within the circle of Vladimir Putin. This opinion was expressed to "Apostrophe" by the Russian political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky.
“Did you want to? - get it! " On the situation, the emergence of a sanctions list of Russian physical and legal entities is unlikely to be affected - most of these structures and their leaders are already under sanctions, and relations are already at the “worse than ever” level ...
This means that in no case should he become successful. The leader cannot come to a straight line with his tail between his legs. He must come in boots and camouflage, smelling of gunpowder and tear gas. Come and report to the one who descended from Carpathian mountains a tribe with an additional chromosome, that the National Guards loyal to him, led by Marshal Zolotov, merciless to the enemies of the Russian world, suppressed an attempt at an armed rebellion inspired by the enemies of Russia on June 12. And on June 13-14, they carried out a purge of traitors in the highest echelons of power.
In Ukraine, the “victorious power” has lost everything.
It is already indecent to remember the "Russian world". This Nazi ideologeme suffered two morbid metaphysical defeats. First, it was rejected by the overwhelming majority of the Russian population of Ukraine, who remained loyal to the Ukrainian state and its European choice. And secondly, it did not receive any serious support in Russia itself. Social scum from provincial car washes and the capital's political instructors-writers do not count. The imperial "elite" did not have the imperial people at hand. Radiant New Russia has shrunk to a stub of bandit Lugandonia, which the Kremlin is desperately trying to shove back into Ukraine. Krymnash is increasingly becoming a suitcase without a handle. Ukraine is gone forever. And with it all the post-Soviet space. Quarter-century collective cries of humiliation have become a self-fulfilling prediction. Russia acted in relation to Ukraine indeed in the most humiliating role of an impotent rapist.
It is characteristic that the same sweet couple who have been doing the same for several years in the bombing of houses and in the Volgograd terrorist attack - Alexander Evseevich and Yulia Leonidovna - mobilized to sort out the next scandalous situation.
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These people would not rule Russia the way they do now if they really strove for domination in the world, or at least in the region. They now govern in such a way as to materially benefit from the ownership of a corporation called Russia. If they encounter obstacles on their way, it annoys them. The elite of Russian politics and business behave as if they no longer hope for stability in the next 30 years. In fact, the overwhelming majority of this elite have prepared themselves to lose all their Russian assets tomorrow. Will these people bargain hard if a serious buyer offers them good price? I doubt it. We shouldn't think of this $ 2 trillion as money to be spent and forgotten. Buying Russia will be the best investment the US government has ever made. Such a deal could be beneficial to all parties. It can be assumed that before the conclusion of this deal, all representatives of Russia will receive immunity from prosecution for committing financial crimes, that all money lying in escrow accounts will be exempted from any checks. "
The methodical pumping into the Western economy of more than a trillion dollars exported from Russia (a recent estimate by the authoritative National Bureau of Economic Research of the United States) was ingenuously combined in these subjects with a passionate desire to screw up the same West, and above all the United States, wherever possible. I quote from the text of the law a list of subjects of close interest of the US financial intelligence: "The largest politicians and oligarchs close to the Russian Federation, their fortunes, proximity to Putin and other members of the "ruling elite", participation in corruption, sources of income and assets of their family members, connections with foreign business. "
Trumpnash becomes a stone on Putin's neck: there is good news for Ukraine / The more persistently Trump goes towards Putin, the more aggressive towards Russia the American elites become
To whom are the mass rallies of Muslims in Moscow, Grozny and Makhachkala, organized under the pretext of solidarity with the Muslims of Myanmar, really addressed; which means the demarche of Kadyrov, who expressed ...
Well, who could have expected that this person will be shocked to the depths of his soul by television footage of the deaths from chemical poisoning of dozens of civilians, including small children. Babies! - as Trump exclaimed several times at his press conference. And he did something that only an absolutely inexperienced politician is capable of. Within five minutes, he turned the American foreign policy in the Middle East - both Obama's, and already, it would seem, outlined as a continuation of Obama's own. He cursed Assad, smeared Barack Obama on the wall for his refusal from the "red line" in 2013, to the dictator and his Russian patron. He announced that for him, Trump, Assad crossed all imaginable and inconceivable red and any other lines and would not go unpunished. "Assad is an animal," Trump will add to the description of "our everything in the Middle East" in a few days.
In fact, he is not going to leave anywhere - precisely because of the hopelessness of the situation in the country as a whole. He understands very well that no damn "successor" can guarantee his safety.
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At the loudspeaker I experienced all the great matches of Spartak of my childhood - the tragic 4: 5 defeat to Dynamo, the brilliant 4: 0 victories over Dynamo in the semifinals and 3: 0 over CDKA in the 1950 USSR Cup final.
And finally, "Spartak" in the uniform of the USSR national team - the German national team in August 1955. Football remake of War - 1: 2 after the first half and 3: 2 in the final.
The recent broadcast of the star of "Echo of Moscow" and "Novaya Gazeta" Y. Latynina is an outstanding phenomenon in many respects. This is a brilliant example of the famous 60⁄40 method - an attempt to gain the trust of the target audience by providing 60 percent of the truth in order to gently convince them of 40 percent of something very important to the propagandist.
Today we are witnessing the complete and humiliating failure of Russia. The Americans mockingly correctly warned the Russian military about the strike in a few hours, inviting them to withdraw their personnel from the base. Thereby making it clear, by the way, that they are well aware: Moscow knew and, moreover, actually participated in the chemical attack. And it turned out that Putin, in fact, just "poked around" in Syria for two years: he did not even think of trying to protect his dear ally Assad. Despite the Kremlin's repeated official statements that the S-300 and S-400 are deployed in Syria precisely to "protect Syrian airfields from American cruise missiles."
“There are two important things - the principled position that Russia is the aggressor, Russia is waging a war, Russia has occupied the territory. This is the first thing. The second position is that Ukraine cannot return the territory by force. This is a war, the death of tens of thousands of people. But Ukraine will never accept this, ”he said.
According to him, in order to return the occupied territories of Donbass, official Kiev must take a clear position - Russia is an aggressor country. Indeed, despite the aggression from the Kremlin, Ukraine still continues to conduct economic relations with the Russian Federation and has not yet introduced a visa regime with the aggressor country.
And they did one more thing better than the rest of us.
They finally passed a non-appealable sentence to the Putindent for life. This sentence for him and his team is much worse than the articles of my and my colleagues, the films of Alexei Navalny, the massive demonstrations on March 26 and June 12, humiliating and offensive personal sanctions of the American Congress.
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In terms of his mentality as a successful businessman, the President of Russia is much closer to the party of hybrid surrender, and from Hillary Clinton he would have been able to get a relatively decent version of it with de facto preserving "Crimeanash" and lifting the most painful sanctions. But the logic of March 18 demanded more, and the temptation to seize the White House was so great! And now, surrounded by Flynns and manaforts, Trump is sure to take a much tougher stance, submitting to the will of Congress and saving his presidency. Solving a similar problem, Putin will have to reckon, unlike Trump, not with the absent parliament, but with a potentially more dangerous group of disaffected for him. Such is the party of war, which every evening swells with madness on all federal channels. This phenomenon unfolding before our eyes is the first in the history of authoritarian regimes not a military, but a television coup d'etat. It is not the Kremlin that sets the agenda for television, but television that sets the agenda for the Kremlin. The only way for Putin to hold on to power for a while is to lead this media coup himself.
Major Putin will have to become Major Prilepin.
It seems that the direct recipients of the new sanctions law did not feel it deeply enough and misinterpreted the modus of the American Congress towards them. They believe that they have been presented with an ultimatum: within 180 days to fulfill certain conditions, which can still be bargained for. This is a serious delusion of the Russian trillionaires. They have already been credited: the financial intelligence of the United States has been given orders that have the force of law, which must be executed within 180 days. The timeline is laid out in the text to cheer Donald Trump, who is extremely reluctant to sign the law, almost unanimously accepted Congress. The process of reorganization of the Krimlev trillion has already been launched, and it is irreversible. The most advanced part of the intellectual subservient of the Lubyanka brigade understands this circumstance and promptly throws in non-standard ideas for saving the sacred common fund.
2. Ensuring the transfer of property acquired in the 1990s – 2000s by inheritance, the creation of a hereditary aristocracy;
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As a result of the fight of the "Afghan Bulldogs" under the Kremlin carpet, an interesting document fell out on the public view - a denunciation of the highest name of one business entity to another about the protection of the Rus sanatorium. But one phrase was striking in it - “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, political projects led by V.V. Volodin are under the threat of discrediting. as your successor. "
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As far back as I can remember, I have always been a Spartak fan.
In the beginning there was a word, and this word was - the only living voice in those days that could be heard from gloomy plates and loudspeakers sticking out everywhere - the unforgettable voice of Vadim Sinyavsky.
His credit history is such that after leaving power under any successor, he will be subject to criminal prosecution. Moreover, where is the guarantee that the successor he has chosen will not be removed in a week? Therefore, at best, he will face the fate of Milosevic, and at worst, something reminiscent of the death of the unfortunate Gaddafi.
In all authoritarian brothels, in such situations, it is not the beds that are changed, but, first of all, the Main Girl. Russian post-Soviet billionaires could not help but think about it. But the most outstanding mediocrity of our political class is also the most outstanding because it foresaw such a development of events and tried to forestall it.
He also noted that Bunker did not can afford Putin will endure the third consecutive "public humiliation" - to come on a straight line on June 15 after the resounding success of demonstrations throughout Russia, and the opposition rally will be thwarted by some large-scale provocation.
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The future of Vladimir Putin and the system of power created by him will be determined in the next few months, and it depends on the actions of the United States, says Russian publicist and political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky. In an interview with Crimea.Realii, he spoke about what, in his opinion, awaits the Putin regime.
Piontkovsky notes that the Kremlin has not yet realized how the attitude of the American establishment towards the Putin regime has changed.
“These changes were brought about by Trump's victory. Previously, people who understood the Russian threat were in a clear minority in Washington. Now, opposition to this threat has become the mainstream of the American military-political elite. This is what was unconditionally demonstrated at the Aspen, Colorado security conference on July 20-22. Almost all representatives of the US power structures, both the previous and the current administration, spoke there. The main thesis of the speakers was that Putin is waging a total hybrid war against the West, and this reality must be recognized as an existential challenge and defeat Putin, "the analyst notes.
According to Andrei Piontkovsky, the law on new US sanctions against Russia, signed on August 2, became an expression of this course.
“Trump signed it extremely reluctantly, called it unconstitutional and made it clear that he would sabotage this law as much as possible. However, it is obvious that he can no longer influence American policy in the Russian-Ukrainian direction. We can say that now it is not Trump and Tillerson who define it, but General James Mattis and the US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volcker. Their position is so tough that the Ukrainian leadership is barely keeping up with them in their official language. Only the recent law on the status of Donbass repeats some of Volcker's formulations. By the way, Trump's legendary incompetence played into the hands of Ukraine. If he knew even a little about people and problems, he would never have appointed Volcker to this position, ”the expert says.
The most serious clause of the new law on sanctions, Andrei Piontkovsky calls section No. 241, which concerns the assets of Putin and his inner circle.
In fact, the law of August 2 is an extension of the Magnitsky Act to the entire Russian political elite.
“US Financial Intelligence has been given 180 days to identify these people and their assets in the United States. In fact, this is a kind of figure of speech. Of course, all these persons involved and their assets have been identified long ago, and now all that remains is to apply to them the standard American laws regarding money laundering. The National Bureau of Economic Research has already estimated $ 1.2 trillion belonging to the highest circle of business officials, the leaders of Putin's judoheria. In fact, the law of August 2 is an extension of the Magnitsky Act to the entire Russian political elite. Moreover, as soon as these people are named, the situation cannot be reversed, because the law will begin to operate in relation to them regardless of the wishes of individual politicians, ”the political scientist emphasizes.
Andrei Piontkovsky repeatedly notes that the political fate of Vladimir Putin depends on the loyalty of the upper circle of the elite to him, which is accustomed to keeping the money stolen in Russia in the West. It was this loyalty that was shaken as a result of the law passed by Congress.
For the first time in 17 years, Putin's entourage had doubts about the ability of the first person to perform their functions
“The presidential election, like any election in Russia, is a meaningless manipulation of public opinion. The real elections are taking place today. On October 7, the people closest to Putin, who gathered on the occasion of his anniversary in a narrow circle, discussed only one paper - the same section No. 241 on personal sanctions, ”the publicist suggests.
Andrei Piontkovsky is sure: the “golden hundred” of the richest officials-businessmen want, first of all, to save their trillion, going for the sake of this so-called “hybrid surrender”.
“A test step in this direction was a statement made by Putin a few weeks ago about the possibility of inviting peacekeepers to Donbass. However, this attempt did not make any impression, given that the conditions he proposed were unacceptable for either Ukraine or the West. For the first time in 17 years, Putin's entourage had doubts about the ability of the first person to perform their functions. Guaranteeing the security of the assets looted in Russia in the West is the main function of the leader of the regime. Therefore, the August 2 law is the destruction of the economic and political foundations of Putin's system, ”the analyst emphasizes.
At the same time, according to Piontkovsky, Moscow's possible reaction does not exclude manifestations of "hybrid escalation."
Threats of Moscow's use of tactical nuclear weapons are a bluff that failed back in 2015
“Raising rates is part of the same bargaining with the West. It cannot be ruled out that Putin may become hysterical and lose his balance. In addition, in his environment there are their own "real violent", ready to aggravate relations. However, in fact, Putin did not have any good cards in foreign policy... At the first escalation in the Ukrainian direction, lethal defensive weapons will be transferred to Kiev, which will make the cost of any further offensive unacceptable. Threats of Moscow's use of tactical nuclear weapons are also a bluff that failed back in 2015, when, despite all the threats, NATO deployed its troops in the Baltic countries on a permanent basis, ”recalls Andrei Piontkovsky.
Another factor that may affect the loyalty of the Russian elites to Putin, according to the political scientist, will be the "Chechen issue".
“All Russian security officials, with the exception of General Zolotov, oppose Putin on the issue of Chechnya and Kadyrov. All of them demand “the head of Kadyrov,” he reminds.
The pressure of the political elite on Putin will be very strong
According to Andrei Piontkovsky, it is likely that the names included in the new sanctions list will be regularly announced in the near future. And this will exacerbate the discussions going on in the Kremlin.
“By the way, some oligarchs are already coming to Washington and trying to negotiate with the American authorities. Against this background, the pressure of the political elite on Putin will be very strong, ”the analyst notes.
At the same time, Andrei Piontkovsky does not harbor illusions about the future successor.
The fate of Putin and the entire thieves' Judoheria in general now depends on the actions of the United States
“More often than not, after the fall of the dictator, the same scoundrels as he come to power. However, they are forced to change their policy. The main task of the Russian "elites" today is to save a trillion, which presupposes building a new format of relations with the West. Most likely, the new junta, which will come to power in Russia, will offer a kind of "deal": they completely leave Donbass, and the West, in turn, "forgets" for a while about Crimea without official recognition of its annexation, "he suggests.
According to the expert, in this case, it is highly likely that the process of the collapse of the “Putin’s vertical”, launched at the time of the change of power, will become irreversible.
“Every authoritarian system rests not only on violence, but also on a certain myth about the heroic leader. About Putin's successors - be it Sergei Ivanov or someone else - no such myth has been created and there will be no time to create it. In addition, the successor will not be able to stop the already launched process of confiscation of a trillion, which by itself destroys the entire system created. The fate of Putin and the entire thieves' Judocheria as a whole now, more than ever, depends on the actions of the United States, ”summed up Andrei Piontkovsky.
But with Putin it is impossible, for Putin it is a political death. He will try to jump out of the loop at a lower cost. And this price, which he is ready to pay, we will find out in a few days at his performance in Sochi,
- emphasized the publicist.
Much can change the pressure of the West if the measures that are spelled out in the law of the Congress are consistent, especially the personal sanctions that will be applied by the United States. This will cause a very serious internal political crisis in Russia. There may even be a major policy change,
- summed up the politician.
It is in Russia that Putin will talk about how, saving Assad, he continues the holy war with the sworn Pindos. And to the Pindos themselves, he is trying to sell the operation to save Assad as a constructive Russian contribution to the common cause of the pro-Western coalition against the Islamic State. And to cut them off for this contribution, the abolition or at least mitigation of sanctions and tacit consent to Crimeanash.
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How has this new external situation influenced the internal dynamics of the Syrian catastrophe? First of all, the role and influence of radical Islamists has sharply increased. Two years ago, the resistance of the Sunni majority, which generally began with peaceful demonstrations, was overwhelmingly secular. Assad's complete diplomatic isolation would force him or his entourage to seek ways to peacefully transform the regime. The sect, which makes up 10% of the population, cannot rule forever anyway. However, the crafty thesis of Russian propaganda prevailed: you cannot help the opposition, we will bring jihadists to power. He turned out to be faithful exactly the opposite.
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This scenario is already being implemented. Deprived of any outside support, demoralized by the West's reaction to the "brilliant move" of Assad-Putin, many fighters of the Free Syrian Army join the jihadists from the "Islamic State" banned in Russia, with whom they have recently been at enmity.
It was the non-intervention of the world community in the systematic destruction of the Sunni community by the Alawite sect of Assad, armed with Soviet and Russian weapons, that led to radicalization of Sunnis and to the growing influence of Islamist internationalists, who appeared as their only defenders.
There was no external threat to Pyongyang. But at the same time, none of the members of the holy family of Kims could feel safe. No guarantees, oaths, signed treaties, sincere assurances of the accursed West could provide the North Korean regime with this security. Brother Kim was poisoned almost live. Uncle Kim was either shot or handed over to the dogs to be torn apart. Would lay down a little differently palace layouts, the same fate could befall the Supreme Deity itself. These are the professional risks of any dictator, and no nuclear arsenals can remove these risks.
“There is such a sequence of events here. Step one - Putin made the first peace-loving proposal for peacekeepers, but nothing came of it. Then he will do the second - nothing will come of it either. And the boys around him will understand that in order to save a trillion, you must at least leave Donbass, ”Piontkovsky is convinced.
By the way, about chemical disarmament. It didn't happen. No, of course, some canisters of unknown purpose were publicly destroyed in front of the cameras or even exported from Syria by sea. But today, there are regular reports of the use of chemical weapons by government forces again. Last week, Moscow once again covered Assad in the Security Council, when a UN commission proved that the Syrian government was using weapons of mass destruction.
For several days, the cynical PR construction of Damascus and Moscow allowed them to replace the content of the Syrian agenda in the world perception and realize a whole a set of goals that are most important for oneself:
The endless series with the participation of the heads of two diplomatic departments - John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov, in which Russian minister foreign affairs undoubtedly plays a major, active role. For a year now, Moscow has been doing exactly what it came for in Syria: it is busily destroying the Sunni opposition, which is physically oriented towards the West, to the sect of the "legitimate" dictator Assad. So that only two subjects remain in Syria: the Kremlin client Assad and the Kremlin "icebreaker-2" "Islamic State", which are used by Moscow as an instrument of pressure on the hated West. At the same time, civilians are also being destroyed - the inhabitants of Aleppo and all sorts of other Turkomans, the existence of which the Russian national leader had never even heard of.
Of course, Assad and Putin immediately declared that it was the Syrian opposition that attacked itself with chemical missiles. In Russia, the Kremlin propagandists kept repeating the same thing: yes, it is possible that Assad is a villain, but he is not a stupid person, and he could not help but understand the consequences of his chemical attack. Quite right! Assad and Putin were well aware that Assad's chemical strike would lead to exactly the consequences to which it actually led. They figured out Obama - they figured that Obama would somehow have to react to the dismissive attitude towards his red line, to the shocking scenes of the deaths of children on television, that he would utter some loud condemning words, but at the same time is desperate will look for opportunities with these words and limit himself. And here Putin and Assad will offer a face-saving plan for chemical disarmament.
This is a lie, almost convincing to the layman. But professionals know that the nuclear pairs of the USSR - USA and China - USA are stable, because each side in these pairs has a second-strike capability. Therefore, even in an acute political situation, neither side will have an incentive to strike first. A possible nuclear pair between the DPRK and the United States is extremely unstable. In a crisis, the DPRK will always strive to strike with its limited resource as soon as possible before the enemy destroys it. And the United States has to liquidate this resource until it really loses several million inhabitants of one of its megacities. In addition, the recognition by the Americans of the DPRK as a "nuclear power in law" and the transition in relations with it to a policy of mutual containment would mean an automatic refusal by the United States of obligations towards its allies, South Korea and Japan. What security guarantees can we talk about, if in the event of an attack by a nuclear DPRK on South Korea will Americans have to choose between Seoul and San Francisco? This inability to defend their allies as a fait accompli is enthusiastically proclaimed by Russian propagandists at their gatherings of the wicked. Rejoicing that the strategic weakness of the United States will be noticed by its European allies, and no longer able to rely on American guarantees of security, Europe will have to "negotiate" with the Great Putin.
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2. Ensuring the transfer of property acquired in the 1990s – 2000s by inheritance, the creation of a hereditary aristocracy;
Let's add, earlier Andrei Piontkovsky said that within 180 days the Russian elite will be given an ultimatum - to sharply change their position. This means that all of their assets will be made public, and they will be subject to the law on money laundering.
I commented on the Syrian disaster of 2013 along the way. As in the previous text on the development of events in Iraq, I will first give some of my observations of that time, and then I will try to evaluate them in today's retrospective.
Meanwhile, such a development was not at all fatal. With minimal outside support from the secular opposition united in the Free Syrian Army, the Sunnis themselves would have driven out of Syria mentally alien medieval fanatics, just as the Iraqi Sunni tribes expelled al-Qaeda internationalist warriors who came to help them in 2007.
Open outside interference In the Syrian war three years ago, terrorists from the Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps markedly changed the balance of power and allowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to achieve some military successes and continue the massacre of Sunnis. This, in turn, has intensified calls for assistance to the rebels. Egypt broke off diplomatic relations with Syria. Discussion within the United States has sharply escalated. Barack Obama had to mutter once again something about the red line - the use of chemical weapons by Assad (in the firm belief that the Syrian leader will never cross this line) - and about the possible supply of weapons to moderate rebels.
Interesting food for thought for all interested persons was thrown up by the "Skrynnik case", which ended well on the same August days. Ms. Elena Skrynnik is not a select trillionaire. So, the former Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. An investigation against Skrynnik was launched in Switzerland in 2013, when the country's authorities were suspicious of the receipt of $ 140 million in its accounts over 5 years. In 2015, Swiss prosecutors seized over $ 60 million in the accounts of the former minister as part of an investigation into money laundering. At the same time, Skrynnik claimed that she did not have any accounts in Switzerland. But in August 2017, the Skrynnik case in Switzerland was closed, access to her previously arrested bank accounts was restored back in February. The prosecutor's office stated that Russia did not provide legal assistance to the investigation, therefore, it was not possible to find sufficient evidence of money laundering.
A year ago, Putin decided to crown a series of these achievements with a sharp increase in the military presence of the Russian Federation in Syria, right up to direct participation in hostilities on the side of Assad - for a start, with the aviation and marines, together with Hezbollah units and units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The madness of this idea - to get involved in a conflict that has grown into a medieval religious war, to throw the lives of Russian servicemen into its furnace to protect the doomed dictator-executioner - is so obvious that it cannot be covered up with any hypocritical bleating about Russia's national interests in the Middle East, about maintaining a military foothold in a strategically important region, about confronting a unipolar world. This is worse than the Afghanistan of the Kremlin elders.
Trapped in a Ukrainian trap, Putin has no good moves. But also inaction, marking time for him is dangerous. By raising the stakes, sending the Russian military into mindless carnage in faraway Syria, Putin hopes to once again reset his television legitimacy. But he is wrong: no TV set can make popular opinion support the new Afghan. The military agenda is no longer captivating the Teletubbies. Putin also has another target audience: the West, with which he is waging a hybrid war and with which - realizing that this war is likely to be lost - is seeking a "new peaceful coexistence" on its own terms.
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The political scientist noted that Putin's proposal for peacekeepers is completely unacceptable for Ukraine and the West. But Putin is not yet ready for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Donbass.
As for the "joint struggle," this White House concession to the mantra embedded in the American political consciousness, which Donald Trump, surrounded by Kremlin agents, repeats in its most complete form: "Our main enemy is the Islamic State, Putin is fighting terrorists, so we must throw away all our petty differences and unite with Putin. We need the Russians to defeat the Islamic State. " For the first time, the thesis "Cooperate with the Kremlin, otherwise you will be blown up" was fully worked out by Putin's propaganda and its Washington ideological station after the terrorist attack of the Tsarnaev brothers at the Boston marathon. Since then, the increasingly frank and cynical blackmail by the Kremlin propaganda of the population and the leadership of Europe and the United States after each large-scale terrorist attack by Islamists is gaining momentum: lift the sanctions and start cooperating with us, otherwise you will be blown up.
The new US sanctions law is an outlawing of the entire Russian political leadership, which has amassed its treasures in the United States. The US financial intelligence agency is instructed within 180 days to identify (most likely, it has long been known to it) all the assets belonging to the top of the Russian ruling class, starting with Vladimir Putin, and publish this data. After that, the laws in force in the United States on combating money laundering will be applied to everyone who follows. This is a fundamentally new character of US relations with Putin's kleptocratic regime.
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