US Coast Guard Commandant: We Are Falling Far Behind Russia in Arctic

OK....to my knowledge I have not stated anything about Russia that was not a fact.

The things I posted about while being in Russia to provide security for U.S. Military Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons Destruction Teams and being there with the CDC's help when having to clean up former Soviet Biological Weapons Labs in Russia is all FACTS as I was there.

It is also a fact that the Russian People who lived near these old abandoned Soviet Biological Weapons Labs WERE VERY HAPPY TO SEE US THERE!!!

We did the job right and environmentally safe and the Russian people living near those Labs had been complaining to the Russian Government on a Local, Regional and National Level for YEARS before we showed up to get those Labs cleaned up and properly destroy those weapons.

They were VERY NICE PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY APPRECIATIVE and they were VERY ANGRY at Moscow.

And I have stated many times and you tell me if you agree or not....that PUTIN AND 110 FORMR MEMBERS OF THE KGB, GRU, SOVIET MILITARY AND SOVIET COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP ARE....STEALING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OIL AND NATURAL GAS PROFITS THAT IS MONEY THAT SHOULD GO TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE TO BUILD NEW INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN RUSSIA NEEDS FIXING!!

Tell me where I lied about anything???

AboveAlpha

 

Ok... on the basis of what documents such conclusions are you make?

 

Report: 110 people own 35 pct of Russia's wealth Oct. 9, 2013 10:15 AM EDT 9Share article MOSCOWCopyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.55.752237.6156

MOSCOW (AP) — A staggering 35 percent of household wealth in Russia is owned by just 110 people, the highest level of inequality in the world barring a few small Caribbean islands, a report by a major investment bank says.

By contrast, billionaires worldwide account for just 1-2 percent of total wealth, Credit Suisse said in its report published Wednesday. Russia has one billionaire for every $11 billion in wealth while in the rest of the world there is one for every $170 billion.

The fall of Communism saw Russia's most prized assets sold off to a small circle of businessmen later known as oligarchs. President Vladimir Putin allowed them to keep their wealth in exchange for their political loyalty.

Metals and banking tycoons Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Fridman, who made their fortunes in the 90s, are still high on the list of Russia's richest men. But the past decade saw a rise of new billionaires who draw their wealth from state contracts and some of whom are known to be the presidents' friends, like Gennady Timchenko.

Credit Suisse said that there were hopes with the demise of the Soviet Union that Russia would turn into a high skilled economy with fair wealth distribution but "this is almost a parody of what happened in practice."

The 35 percent of wealth that Russian billionaires own is equivalent to $420 billion.

"Russia has the highest level of wealth inequality in the world, apart from small Caribbean nations with resident billionaires," the bank said in the report.

LINK....http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/report-110-people-own-35-pct-russias-wealth

AboveAlpha

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MOSCOW -- MOSCOW (AP) — A staggering 35 percent of household wealth in Russia is owned by just 110 people, the highest level of inequality in the world barring a few small Caribbean islands, a report by a major investment bank says.

By contrast, billionaires worldwide account for just 1-2 percent of total wealth, Credit Suisse said in its report published Wednesday. Russia has one billionaire for every $11 billion in wealth while in the rest of the world there is one for every $170 billion.

The fall of Communism saw Russia's most prized assets sold off to a small circle of businessmen later known as oligarchs. President Vladimir Putin allowed them to keep their wealth in exchange for their political loyalty.

Metals and banking tycoons Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Fridman, who made their fortunes in the 90s, are still high on the list of Russia's richest men. But the past decade saw a rise of new billionaires who draw their wealth from state contracts and some of whom are known to be the presidents' friends, like Gennady Timchenko.

Credit Suisse said that there were hopes with the demise of the Soviet Union that Russia would turn into a high skilled economy with fair wealth distribution but "this is almost a parody of what happened in practice."

The 35 percent of wealth that Russian billionaires own is equivalent to $420 billion.

"Russia has the highest level of wealth inequality in the world, apart from small Caribbean nations with resident billionaires," the bank said in the report.

LINK....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/russia-wealth-inequality_n_4070455.html

AboveAlpha

 

Two decades after the fall of communism, 35 per cent of the household wealth in Russia belongs to just 110 billionaires
•Figures show wealth has been massively concentrated in hands of a few powerful 'oligarchs'
•Russia has highest level of wealth inequality in the world, apart from small Caribbean nations with resident billionaires, said report

•Discrepancy a 'parody' of the hopes for a prosperous egalitarian society that some held for Russia following Soviet Union's collapse
By Will Stewart for MailOnline
Published: 09:52 EST, 10 October 2013 | Updated: 19:51 EST, 10 October 2013



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Levels of inequality have reached unprecedented heights in Russia, with more than a third of its wealth concentrated in the hands of just 110 super-rich people, says a new report.
Credit Suisse investment bank says wealth has been massively concentrated in the hands of powerful ‘oligarchs’ – among them well-known football tycoons Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea, and Alisher Usmanov, a major shareholder at Arsenal.
And they nearly all owe their wealth to President Vladimir Putin, who has allowed trusted businessmen to gain exclusive rights to the nation’s vast natural reserves.
Russia's richest men: (Clockwise from top left) Alisher Usmanov, Mikhail Fridman, Vicktor Vekselberg, Andrey Melnichenko, Mikhail Prokharov, Leonid Mikhelson, Gennady Timchenko, Vladimir Lisin, Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov


In Soviet times, the Communist credo was that everyone was equal – though the reality was different – but now the contrast could hardly be starker. Russia has a population of 143.5 million generating total household wealth of £750billion, but £263billion of that is owned by just 110 people.
‘Russia has the highest level of wealth inequality in the world, apart from small Caribbean nations with resident billionaires,’ said Credit Suisse.
Its report said the discrepancy was a ‘parody’ of the hopes for a prosperous egalitarian society that some held for Russia following the Soviet Union’s collapse.
And the gulf is expected to grow. Russia currently has 84,000 dollar millionaires, a figure forecast to rise to 133,000 by 2018 – a faster rate than Europe or America.
Most of the ‘Reds-to-Riches’ dollar billionaires made their fortunes by buying up highly prized state assets of the old USSR, or through securing lucrative contracts awarded by the Kremlin for which the closest political connections are deemed necessary.
Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanov, controls USM Holdings, a British Virgin Islands-based entity with holdings in mining, technology and telecommunications. He also co-owns Arsenal football club
After a decade of chaos under Boris Yeltsin in the Nineties, Mr Putin set about tapping Russia’s vast natural wealth in order to rebuild a country battered by the transition from Communism to rampant capitalism.

With loyal businessmen commanding the economy, a high oil price and Europe’s need for energy aided him in stoking a remarkable recovery.
Mr Abramovich is seen by many as the figurehead of this Russian elite, many of whom have London bases and are synonymous with trophy wives, palatial homes, fleets of luxury cars and ocean-going armadas.

But the Chelsea owner ranks only 13th in Credit Suisse’s analysis, which is based on the latest Forbes list for Russia.
It is headed by mining magnate Mr Usmanov, who is said to be worth £11billion and owns Sutton Place in Surrey, a Tudor mansion once the home of J Paul Getty. Number nine on the list is Gennady Timchenko, who is seen as a personal friend of Putin.
The enormous influence of the president is also demonstrated in the fortunes of those who have fallen out of favour.
Manufacturing and banking mogul Boris Berezovsky was thought to have been the first post-Soviet billionaire and Mr Putin’s ‘kingmaker’, but they fell out and he moved into exile in London.

He died in March after apparently taking his own life at his ex-wife’s home in Ascot, his wealth having fallen substantially.
Another early billionaire, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, lost the bulk of his fortune after he was jailed on ‘political’ grounds after financing opposition parties in Russia.
Russia now has one billionaire for every £6.9billion in household wealth. In the rest of the world, there is one for every £107billion.
Russian metals and banking tycoons Mikhail Fridman and Vladimir Potanin

‘The situation in Russia has no parallel’ says Anthony Shorrocks of Global Economic Perspectives, an author of the report.


‘If you look at how Russians have made their money and the sort of political ties that seem to be necessary to maintain it, there are just very few places where the situation is similar.’


LINK....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lth-Russia-belongs-just-110-billionaires.html

AboveAlpha

 

These are clever people who made the fortune...

What documents are proved - by these people and specifically PUTIN, STEALING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OIL AND NATURAL GAS PROFITS?

 

If you read this you will see that EVERY SINGLE LARGE ENERGY COMPANY THAT WAS SEIZED BY PUTIN AND DECLARED TO BE STATE OWNED....has one of the people listed of those 110 Russian's who own 35% of all Russian Wealth as RUNNING THOSE COMPANIES!!

They are stealing BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in profits of sales and exports of RUSSIAN OIL AND NATURAL GAS!!!

The PROFITS from these companies is supposed to go into the Russian Yearly Budget to pay for things like ROADS, BRIDGES, INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR...etc.

Yet.....over 75% of all profits from the state owned companies DISAPEARS and never makes it into the Russian General Fund for Budget Expendetures!!!

Plus these Russian's are all former KGB, GRU, Military and Former Soviet Communist Leaders!!!

Out of the less than 25% of the profit they don't steal they pay themselves HUGE SALARIES in the Multiple Millions of Dollars!!!

Kiwi.....this is happening!!

How can you or any other Russian possibly defend what is going on???

My friends in Russia and especially those in Moscow tell me no one talks about it because those who do and begin PROTESTS AND GROUPS end up either in JAIL OR DEAD!!!

This is the REASON why there currently is no Russian/American-Canadian PARTNERSHIP!!!

It's also the reason why Putin invaded the Crimea.....as well is the reason why RUSSIA IS IN A DEEP ECONOMIC DEPRESSION!!

AboveAlpha

 

In other words, you have no documents on Putin's participation in plunders. (article, it not documents, I hope you understand it)

At that time, everyone ''turned'' as could.
To similar practice, transition from socialism to capitalism, wasn't where in the world. Unfortunately, the former Russian government was not effective (not skillful) in planning of the future... as well as other former republics in the USSR

Mass ''uncontrolled theft'' of natural resources, was stopped by Putin.

 

How Putin Is Turning Russia Into One Big Enron
By Anders AslundNov. 21 2012 00:00
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In a few quick decisions, President Vladimir Putin has devastated Russia's energy policy. This daring radical change of strategy will primarily hit state revenues. The essence of these policy changes is renationalization, a massive increase in capital expenditure and reduced efficiency.

For years, Gazprom has carried out too large capital expenditures, 70 percent of which investment analysts euphemistically with call "value detraction," which really means corruption or waste. Now, Putin has decided to drive it to new heights. This month, Gazprom went ahead with its South Stream project, which is supposed to cost $20 billion, but will probably cost twice as much. Its sole purpose is to circumvent Ukraine. For the same reason, Gazprom plans to build two more Nord Stream pipes at a cost of probably $20 billion, but neither is needed. On top of this comes the massive investment program in Yamal. None of this adds any value.

Suddenly, on Oct. 29, Putin decided that Gazprom should develop the giant virgin Chayadinsk field in Yakutia, build a pipeline to Vladivostok and construct an LNG plant there for export to China. Officially, this project is supposed to be completed by 2017 and cost $40 billion, but investment analysts assess it at $65 billion.

Putin's explanation was that Gazprom had lost out on LNG for China. But Chayadinsk gas would cost $15 per million British thermal units, while the price of natural gas in the U.S. is $3 million British thermal units. Thus, this project will probably never become profitable. The Chinese prefer much cheaper Turkmen gas, which already flows to China through a pipeline.

Altogether, Gazprom's capital expenditures will be about $45 billion a year for the next five years, equaling its 2011 profits. But the shale-gas and LNG revolutions are likely to wipe out all its profit. Moreover, Gazprom usually exceeds its plans for capital expenditures while missing its production targets. In 2011, it planned for $27 billion of capital expenditures, but in the end it spent $53 billion to its shareholders' dismay.

Strange as it may sound, these recent investment decisions may drive Gazprom — formally the most profitable company in the world in 2011 — into bankruptcy within a few years. With its ephemeral profits, it is starting to look a lot like Enron. Currently, Gazprom contributes 7 percent of total state revenues, but this will not last. Russia may have half the shale gas assets in the world, but it is losing out on that revolution out of sheer passivity.

The oil sector has been much healthier. In Georgetown professor Thane Gustafson's new book "Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia," he argues convincingly that Russia's oil production is secure until 2015 because of new fields coming on line.

Profitability and state revenues are another matter. Putin's decision to allow Rosneft to buy TNK-BP for $55 billion augurs a serious deterioration. At the Valdai Club, he deplored this deal at length, expressing his "mixed feelings." He claimed that the disagreement between AAR, the Russian owners of 50 percent of TNK-BP, and BP had forced him to accept the deal. "But ultimately, we nevertheless agreed with Rosneft and BP's suggestion." His only positive statement was that "this will ensure additional transparency in activities of our biggest oil company." Is Putin suggesting that he is not in charge?

The damage will be great. First, Rosneft's financial sustenance will be endangered. Its current market capitalization is $73 billion, and its debt will now rise to the same level, which undoubtedly will raise its borrowing costs.

Second, the expanded Rosneft will account for 40 percent of the country's oil production and state companies for at least 56 percent, which will guarantee a decline in competition, efficiency and profitability. Putin said he regretted "that a company with mainly state participation was increasing its presence on the market through a foreign partner."

Third, Rosneft just announced capital expenditure plans that make Gazprom look bashful. Last year, it spent $31 billion. Rosneft President Igor Sechin is now speaking vaguely of huge increases in investment.

While concentrating on very long-term, uncertain and complex Arctic offshore projects with the help of major foreign oil companies, the Russian oil policy is ignoring the intensive development of old and smaller fields with new technology and small, independent companies. This makes no sense.

By contrast, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin commented on Rosneft's purchase of TNK-BP in Vedomosti: "An inefficient company absorbs an efficient one … [and] unfortunately, the company will be managed by the old Rosneft management." When a rotten apple is put on top of good apples, they will all rot. Through this purchase, "Rosneft contributed to the outflow of capital," Kudrin writes. Finally,"Rosneft will ask for tax benefits." Somehow, the Russian treasury will be forced to pay for Rosneft's purchase of TNK-BP, its misdirected investment program and its reduced profitability. This can cost the Russian state tremendously, and the oil sector has steadily contributed 40 percent of state revenues.

Putin's recent energy decisions are probably the most costly for the Russian energy sector since the de facto confiscation of Yukos in 2004, and they contradict Russia's national interests. Why did Putin do anything so harmful?

The most plausible explanation is that Putin's cronies want to rob Gazprom empty and turn Rosneft into their new slush fund. After one national champion has been robbed empty, a new one is created. But Rosneft is likely to fail as spectacularly as Gazprom. Because of Gazprom's unwise investment decisions, some people will extract tens of billions of dollars from Gazprom, while Novatek and Rosneft may pick up Gazprom's pieces for pennies after its collapse. This can be the robbery of the millennium.

If this is the case, corruption has gone completely out of all control. The recently exposed corruption cases of $100 million in the Defense Ministry, $200 million in the Glonass program and $500 million involving the funding of the APEC summit would appear to be diversionary maneuvers to hide the real catch.

Yet this cloud has silver linings. The extraordinary mismanagement of the Russian energy sector might actually speed up the country's economic diversification. The decline in energy rents will likely expose more corruption in the energy sector and weaken Putin's hold on power.

In all likelihood, Putin has just made the greatest mistakes of his political career. The biggest question is why Putin is carrying out this massive destabilization of his own political and economic regime. Has he lost his mind? Or does he desire destabilization to alter the nature of his regime?


LINK....http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opini...turning-russia-into-one-big-enron/471734.html

AboveAlpha

 

As always, maybe, probably...
- analytical article of 2012 which many can write. I thought you have documents from CIA on Putin's frauds. Putin as well as any president on the state free providing, (The law on guarantees to the President) and a salary into his account goes constantly (Putin told once, I don't even check, how many,Ministry of Finance to send for him ) What for money to him, billions,trillions? In a coffin with yourself you don't take it.

 

Well there is that very well known PALACE or GIANT MANSION that Putin had built for himself until other Russian's found out about it and then he had the DEED to that Real Estate transfered into one of his buddies names.

PUTIN'S PALACE

The Residence at Cape Idokopas (Russian: Резиденция на мысе Идокопа&#1089 also known as the "Palace on the Idokopas Cape",[1] often called in the media "Putin's Palace",[2] "Dacha Putin",[3] "Putin’s country cottage",[4] etc., is a large Italianate palace complex located on the Black Sea coast near the village of Praskoveevka in Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

While officially dismissed in 2010 by Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov,[5] it has been claimed that the dacha was built for the personal use of President Putin, and that its construction began during his first Presidency. Detailed claims about the project, which allegedly made improper use of state resources, were made by Sergei Kolesnikov, a businessman with ties to Putin dating from his time in Saint Petersburg prior to entering Kremlin politics.[6]

In December 2010 Kolesnikov wrote an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev detailing the involvement of himself and others in the project and calling for Medvedev to investigate and to take action against corruption in Russia.[7][8] Good quality photographs of the palace and its extensive grounds were subsequently published by the Russian language Wikileaks website in January 2011, which showed the apparently complete lavish interior decor.[9] Following the release of the photographs the site was temporarily blocked.[10]

Spokespeople on the behalf of Putin and the Russian government have consistently dismissed Putin's connections to the property and the related allegations of corruption.[5][11] In February 2011 the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that it had seen documents which supported Kolesnikov by implicating Vladimir Kozhin, Head of the Presidential Property Management Department, who had denied any involvement.[12] A spokesman refused to comment on the Novaya Gazeta article.[13] The presence of Federal Protective Service (FSO) activity in the area has been claimed as further evidence of state involvement.[14] In April 2011 PPMD head Vladimir Kozhin admitted Kremlin involvement with project when he said that his office was contracted by Lirus Management (Rosinvest, a subsidiary of Lirus, was directly financing the construction of Palace) to carry out the contract for the construction of the palace.[15]

In March 2011 it was reported that the company "Idokopas" which owned around 67 hectares of "recreational" land near the settlement of Praskoveyeka, including a "guesthouse" complex amounting to 26,000 square meters, had been sold for $350 million to Alexander Ponomarenko, a businessman and billionaire[16][17] with links to Putin who made his money by controlling the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Ponomarenko also said he had bought a second company, "Yazurnaya Yagoda" (Azure berry), which owns 60 hectares of agricultural land near Divnomorsk, a settlement 13 kilometers from Praskoveyevka. According to Vedomosti, however, experts think that deal was poor value. $350 million is too much they said, estimating the property at $20 million.[18] Ponomarenko bought the unfinished complex from Nikolai Shamalov, another member of Putin's circle and the businessman at the centre of Kolesnikov's claims, and his partners.[19] While he did not reveal his plans for its use, Ponomarenko confirmed that the property's value would be close to $350 million.

There is a picture of this monsterously large Palace on this link.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin's_Palace

The U.S. President and his Family live in the White House but they DON'T OWN IT and they can only live their till the next U.S. President is sworn into Office.

Putin got caught RED HANDED on this one!!! LOL!!!

AboveAlpha

 

All this proves is that Vladimir Putin believes in Reaganomics...free enterprise and capitalism. I mean it worked for the US didn't it? As long as the billionaires pay their taxes, (which Khodorovsky didn't), do not get involved in politics and help build up the country...(like developing Socchi into a major resort), what difference does it make?

 

Just stop Alpha.

Anyone not a paid troll or Russian hyper nationalist can see the obvious truth in the MULTIPLE sources you have posted. I appreciate the articles, good reads and much more to solidify my thoughts on the poor people in Russia and what they are still having to deal with.

I still thin Putin is better for the Russian people than what they have had for the last twenty years. But the more I research or see things like what you posted, the more I realize he is sadly the best of tthe worst. The large majoirty of those in favor of Putin that i have seen are the hardliner nationalists that jut want Russia to have tome type for importance again on the world stage.

 

The questions the Russian People should be asking is...."If all these at one time PRIVATE COMPANIES Putin seized are now STATE OWNED.....Then WHERE THE HELL IS ALL THE PROFIT MONEY GOING BECAUSE IT SURE AS HELL ISN'T HELPING OUT THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE!!!??

Putin and his 110 KGB, GRU, COMMIE and FORMER SOVIET MILITARY BUDDIES.....are STEALING BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OIL AND NATURAL GAS EXPORT PROFITS!!!

It's not hard to prove at all.

All you have to do is take the number of Barrels of Oil Exported per month....and multiply that number with two other sets of numbers....one being the COST PER BARREL TO MANUFACTURE.......the other number being....the difference between the average cost per barrel of OIL in one Month and what the average sale price was per barrel that month......then you get the PROFIT and you multiply the AVERAGE PROFIT PER BARREL A MONTH TIMES THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BARRELS SOLD FOR EXPORT.....and you get YOUR MONTHLY PROFIT!!

Then you do this for each month and then add up 12 Monthly Profits which come out roughly to about $750 Billion in Oil Profits for Russia in 2014.

So.....where did the money go?

Because it sure as HELL didn't go into the Russian Budget to build new Infrastructure for Russia!!!

Bunch of THEIVES!!!

Putin steals as much as he can when he can!

AboveAlpha

 

Anyone who read articles in the Moscow Times realized that they didn't have Russia's best interest at heart. It was foreign owned like most of Russia's publications, so everything in it was as deliberately detrimental towards Russia as our own MSM. That has changed now.

A new law was passed that brought all foreign owned publications up to par with those in the 'Anglo' world. Foreign ownership is now limited to twenty five percent.

 

you didn't contradict anything in the article.

all you did was attack the messenger.

 

Let me tell you just how well I know what Putin is and what he is about.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is in Moscow for the first time and walking outside in RED SQUARE with his Secret Service Detail and some average Russian's stop to tke pictures with Reagan and then a Russian News Reporter asks Reagan..."Mr. President....now that you have visited Russia and Moscow and have met the Russian people....do you still believe that the Soviet Union is an EVIL EMPIRE?"

President Reagan looks at the man and shakes his head and say's....."Noooooo."

Just a meter beyond the 360 Degree Protection of the Secret Service is a man.

This man is dressed up like an AMERICAN YUPPIE with a swetter...and I think it was PINK in color.....drapped over his back and the sweaters knitted arms tied around the mans shoulders and neck in a single oversized tie just like the damn YUPPIES used to wear them and this man has a camera and is pretending to be a TOURIST FROM ANOTHER PART OF THE SOVIET UNION who is SMILING and seems happy to meet President Reagan.

GUESS WHO THIS YUPPIE WAS????

PUTIN!!!

This man is trained in deception and loved the PERKS that came with being a member of the KGB.

Putin will do everything and anything it takes to remain in power in Russia even if it means CHANGING THE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION....which Putin has changed multiple times now so Putin can remain in office.

The ONLY THING PUTIN FEARS.....IS BEING REMOVED FROM OFFICE BECAUSE WHEN THAT HAPPENS ALL THE PEOPLE AND FAMILIES THAT HE HAS BURNED, TORTUED AND BURIED ARE GOING TO COME UP OUT OF THE GROUND AND PULL HIM BACK INTO THE DIRT WITH THEM!!!

AboveAlpha

 

Nah, Putin decided to rebuild the infrastructure in Grozny instead. What you tear down, you rebuild. Hmmm, maybe we should have tried it in places like Libya. The Middle East wouldn't be such a mess, and those people wouldn't be clamoring to get into Europe for survival.

Anyway you are wrong all around. An American who worked in Russia since the 1980's, said that the rural and Eastern parts of the country had developed quite a bit since Putin became president. Even now he held the important BRICS and Shanghai Cooperative summits in the town of Ufa in the Bashkortostan region rather than Socchi, Moscow or Saint Petersburg.



Kadyrov's Grozny

 

It's bad enough they limited Free to Report the Facts Media and News Companies in Russia when Putin seized control of all Russin Media and made it State Controlled....but you are actually saying that it is also good that Putin has limited FREE ENTERPRISE by only allowin just 25% of News Companies to be foreign owned??

Controlling the Media and controlling what can and will be reported is what DICTATORS DO!!

AboveAlpha

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And who was this American?

AboveAlpha

 

Putin is a dictator who hates freedom and dissent.

 

Oh, then we're a dictatorship, and here I thought we were an oligarchy.

The 25% ownership limit is rooted in federal law, although the FCC has always had the authority to waive the rule for individual companies. It rarely uses that ability, however. The FCC hopes next month's declaration will encourage broadcasters to consider applying for a waiver, rather than simply assuming the Commission would reject expanded foreign ownership.​

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304682504579156171198218370

Her name is Sharon Tennyson. Here are some quotes from her article:

"Volodya, (a friend) this is the first time we have ever dealt with a Soviet bureaucrat who didn't ask us for a trip to the US or something valuable!" I remember looking at his business card in the sunlight - - it read Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin..." ​

"...Almost immediately Putin began putting Russia's oligarchs on edge. In February a question about the oligarchs came up; he clarified with a question and his answer: "What should be the relationship with the so-called oligarchs? The same as anyone else. The same as the owner of a small bakery or a shoe repair shop." This was the first signal that the tycoons would no longer be able to flaunt government regulations or count on special access in the Kremlin. It also made the West's capitalists nervous. After all, these oligarchs were wealthy untouchable businessmen - - good capitalists, (like the Ukrainian mafia) never mind that they got their enterprises illegally and were putting their profits in offshore banks.

Four months later Putin called a meeting with the oligarchs and gave them his deal: They could keep their illegally-gained wealth-producing Soviet enterprises and they would not be nationalized .... IF taxes were paid on their revenues and if they personally stayed out of politics. This was the first of Putin's "elegant solutions" to the near impossible challenges facing the new Russia. But the deal also put Putin in crosshairs with US media and officials who then began to champion the oligarchs, particularly Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The latter became highly political, didn't pay taxes, and prior to being apprehended and jailed was in the process of selling a major portion of Russia's largest private oil company, Yukos Oil, to Exxon Mobil. Unfortunately, to U.S. media and governing structures, Khodorkovsky became a martyr (and remains so up to today). .."​

http://www.sott.net/article/278407-...nts-character-and-his-countrys-transformation

 

Russia doesn't just ban more than 25% foreign ownership in Russian-based media, they also ban foreign media.

the USA doesn't ban any foreign media.

 

Putin is actually a THIEF!!!

He uses Political Misdirection such as talking about and using one hand to point at a Russian/American Military confrontation in order to keep the Russian people's eye's watching something that they need not worry about all the while Putin uses his other hand that his own People are not watching to PICK THEIR POCKETS!!!

And the sad part is not only does a portion of the Russian People CHEER PUTIN ON....BUT AS WELL THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO BELIEF THAT THEY ARE GETTING SCREWED BY THEIR OWN LEADER!!!

I have seen them do everything and anything including to REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE MATHEMATICAL REALITIES OF ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION!!!

Example.....Putin controls Company A.....as he SEIZED IT....then declares it to be STATE OWNED.

Company A sells OIL and make a profit from Oil Exports of $100 Billion.

Company A pays it's TAXES on the $100 Billion and the Russian People CHEER!! And they say..."SEE! PUTIN IS MAKING SURE WE GET OUR TAX MONEY!!!"

BUT EVEN THOUGH COMPANY A PAY'S $9 BILLION IN TAXES....the remaining $91 BILLION DISAPPEARS!!!

AND NOBODY IN RUSSIA SAY'S ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!

Even the Putin supporters on this forum are CONDITIONED!!

Even whe the most imossible and idiotic beyond all possible reality excuses and explainations are given about what happened to the Money....or who shot down the ML17 BOEING 777 PASSENGER JET LINER.....OR WHY IT IS OK FOR PUTIN TO USE CHINESE PLA....PEOPLES LIBERATION ARMY SOLDIERS WHO WORK FOR FREE IN THE SERVICE OF CHINA.....to be working on East Siberian Infrastructure Development INSTEAD OF HIRING ACTUAL RUSSIAN'S AND PAYING RUSSIAN DECENT WAGES.....these CONDITIONED PUTIN SUPPORTERS will say......EXACTLY THE SAME EXCUSE THAT COMES OUT OF PUTIN'S MOUTH!!!

It is utterly PATHETIC to read some of the posts here as although the WORLD knows PUTIN to be stealing from his own people.....his own people are much more interested in PRETENDING THEY ARE A SUPERPOWER AGAIN!!!

They are not.....not even close.....and now Russia is in a state of ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.....and the ONLY NATION STILL WILLING TO HELP RUSSIA IS.....THE UNITED STATES/CANADA.....because Europe is not going to help because Putin already burned European Investors....and they are DONE with Russia.

AboveAlpha

 

Putin's rating is changeable, but since 1999 (there were 2-3%) it grew in the majority. in 2000 already there was a rating at Putin of 57%. Now nearly 80%. It is a little statistics.

Since 1991 to 1997... pensions in Russia weren't paid on half a year! (constantly were late) You can present as a little protected people - pensioners survived? In 1997 small pensions, but with a delay too began to pay. In 1999, Putin achieved payments of pensions completely and without delays.

Before Putin, GAZPROM didn't pay a half of taxes! The small group of magnates had all profit on oil in banks of the U.S. and Europe. Others also, or at all didn't pay or small part. In 2000, Putin forced to pay taxes of all... thanks to it, in 2003-2004 - the whole world recognized Russia as the country with market economy.

The GDP of the country grew by 76%. The Government debt, decreased by 69%. Unemployment rate in 1999 was 14,1% - in 2015 - 5,3%...

The salary (taking into account inflation), grew by 3,8%. Pensions grew by 2,7%. Safety for citizens improved - 2,8% (from criminals)

Progress of business, even now irrespective of sanctions, 2014, capitalization of 15 large Russian enterprises, grew by 4 times.

Development of automotive industry, in 15 years grew by 58% production of cars. The health care, is allocated for medicine funds for 6% more, as a result of it mortality decreased by 18%, growth of birth rate of 42%, increase in life - almost for 5-6 years. Sponsoring of sport by 22 times increased! (in comparison with 2000) By 3 times improving complexes increased. Financing of culture (theaters, movie theaters, the museums etc increased.) The defensive order grew by eight times. And export of the Russian weapon grew three times.
etc.
These are real data which any person can check...

Putin the real leader and the patriot of the country, wishing prosperity for the country.

 

In Russia now work about 2 000 (thousands!) western different public organizations... including mass media. Some deputies in the government, want to check activity only 12 ''suspicious'' organizations and bureaucrats started shouting as mad.

 

In the U.S. in the white house - actually all almost thieves and murderers!!! They Steal riches and resources of other countries and launch wars worldwide, millions of people as a result perish. U.S. empire of evil!