crime and punishment
"...This war was provoked by Berezovsky...was planned long ago... "
"...This war was provoked by Berezovsky...was planned long ago... "
[Readers must do much of their own work here, connecting the events and people, but the overall pattern I think is now becoming undeniably visible. Behind Putin is Berezovsky, the crimelord, oligarch, capitalist businessman. He is not a Russian, exactly. These are men who are evil, unless nothing is evil. If nothing is evil then how could anyone be evil? But if evil does exist, here it is.]
I first heard about the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin during an official visit to Israel in 1997.
By invitation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, I, along with then Vice-Governor of Kharkov Oblast Leonid Stasevsky, visited Israel as part of the "Program for Economic Cooperation" between our countries. A busy programme of events awaited us, most of which was dedicated to numerous meetings with representatives of Israel's political and economic elite. Among them was a planned meeting with the President of the New Entrepreneurs' Association of Israel, Radoshkovich. At that time former Leningrad emigrant Yitzak Radoshkovich had already become a heavyweight figure not only in his own country, but, according to rumors, in the corridors of the World Bank as well.
Our meeting, during the course of which the matter of various investment projects in the Kharkov region was discussed, was extremely official in nature. The same can't be said about a second meeting with Radoshkovich with whom we, upon returning to the Ukraine, found ourselves in the same airplane. For the entire length of the flight from Tel-Aviv to Kiev we chatted on various topics. And in the course of our chat he mentioned in passing that his second cousin Vladimir Putin had great prospects for advancement in the Russian political elite...
By August of 1999 I saw with my own eyes the result of the dizzying career of the theretofore unknown Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Let's refresh our memories on the chronology:
August 1999. Appointed prime-minister of the Russian Federation;
January 2000. Appointed Acting President of the Russian Federation;
March 2000. Elected President of the Russian Federation.
To what, or rather to whom, was Russia indebted for her "successor to the throne" in the form of Vladimir Putin? We all know to whom -- to Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, who built up this new pretender to Russia's "presidential throne" in record time.
