Aleksandr Sokurov told how well President Vladimir Putin is aware of the situation in the country, including theft among the richest people in the state. The words of the Director, a member of the Council on human rights under President Alexander Sokurov leads portal 47news.
According to Sokurov, Putin is “well everyone knows”, including the actions of the Russian “rich guys”. The Director said one well-known name, to which Putin said, “Yes, he is a thief.” “He told me,” said the filmmaker.
Talking about his experience with the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, he remembered how he first mentioned when the name Putin. Yeltsin praised the policy for assistance to the former mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak departure to Paris during the so-called Sobchak. “I only remember one sentence that “Putin betrayed”,” — said the Director.
Earlier the President of Russia said that the country “is no longer the oligarchs.” According to Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs are those who use their proximity to power to get a windfall.
In a March interview with TASS, Putin noted that the oligarchs of the 1990s directly influenced by the state decisions, whereas modern businessmen had lost “the privilege” and don’t even try to use it. The President, employers can only defend their positions in a “narrow segment”, for example, prices for oil and gas.
