Limonov's columt this time is great read: not too get too seroius but nice perspective tho.
http://svpressa.ru/politic/article/220813/
http://svpressa.ru/politic/article/220813/
Belousov list
Eduard Limonov: Apparently, the dispossession of oligarchs began in the Kremlin
There was such a film "Schindler's List" in which a German entrepreneur in the era of Hitler rescues Jews by placing the names of some on the list of specialists who are supposedly necessary for him to work in his factory for the benefit of Germany.
On December 26, Putin and his adviser Andrei Belousov (his father Rem Belousov was a leading scientist and economist in Soviet times) gathered 59 people, 40 of whom were private entrepreneurs with total capital of over 220 billion USD.
I will not enumerate everyone, it will be tiring, I will call everyone well known, this is enough.
Invited were:
Alekperov , Prokhorov , Kostin , Sechin , Potanin , Vekselberg , Natalya Kasperskaya , Timchenko , Yakobashvili , Mamut , Chubais , smaller ones : Bokarev , Berezkin and so on.
The main thing at the meeting with businessmen were GDP and Belousov, since several months ago it was Andrei Belousov who voiced the idea of imposing a tribute to entrepreneurs.
Belousov suggested, in particular, forcing exporters who received additional profits from the weakening ruble to share money with the state.
He proposed to introduce a special collection for them.
In that frank form of weaning, in which Belousov proposed the expropriation at that time, Belousov’s plan was not adopted.
But, and now, at the stage of organizing a meeting with entrepreneurs, power and business this time agreed on a compromise: the business will finance large infrastructure and key social projects. For a few trillion rubles.
The highest of the crowd was Prokhorov. Looking at the photos of him near Putin, I remember the grim sharpness of Napoleon I , said by the emperor to one of his marshals: “Marshal, you are a head taller than me, but please do not mind me, because I can easily eliminate this discrepancy”.
The most unpleasant among those who gathered on December 26 in the Kremlin was undoubtedly Sechin, an insidious man who gave up either justice or sacrificed for the pleasure of Minister Ulyukayev , a poet who was the son of a Tatar janitor , who was close to him . We all remember the details of this rather smelly story.
With such a little face as Sechin’s scare people, he has a dangerous vidos, he is about to bite, staring at the throat. (This is my personal opinion, of course). He would have to sit with such a face locked up in the Rosneft office.
As far as can be understood from the leaked information, the businessmen gathered in the Kremlin agreed to give the state money for special state projects. It is not known, willingly, hardly willingly, but dutifully, there is nowhere to go, where to go?
Some entrepreneurs did not show up at the meeting with Putin in the Kremlin, in particular, the head of Alfa Bank, Peter Aven , the head of Yandex by the name Volozh , the businessmen Chemezov , Saveliev , as well as the Rotenberg brothers and Kovalchuk did not come .
The Russian media immediately rushed to groan and gasp, and to wonder what will happen to them now, not to those who have come, to what severe punishment they will be exposed to.
My opinion is why the above-mentioned oligarchs did not come, either simpler and more believable.
And they have already agreed to give money, therefore they did not come. Receipts can be blood and did not write, but who will dare to deceive the authorities? Russian power? Yes, no, no one!
In connection with the gathering in the Kremlin on December 26, I recall another gathering at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Prince Mohammed bin Salman , who actually seized power in the kingdom, drove about three hundred princes of the royal family to the Ritz-Carlton and demanded a ransom from them.
The princes spent the entire winter at the hotel, and only in February 2017, when they paid more than $ 100 billion, they were able to leave the hotel, paying for their stay at the best hotel in the capital of Saudi Arabia at exorbitant prices.
The Saudis among themselves there (we hear a small part of the rumors that Riyadh is filled with) claim that 65 of the three hundred princes refused to pay the ransom. No one has ever seen these princes allegedly, and nothing is known about their fate.
Interestingly, in this case, both Mohammed bin Salman and the adviser to the Russian president Belousov act as ultra-revolutionaries, expropriators, who have completely made the slogan “Grab-theft!”
And Belousov, moreover, in fact, ideologically joined the plans of the radical Russian party “The Other Russia” *, demanding to cancel the results of privatization (“We don’t need the Super Rich”).
Only here, the radical political party "Other Russia" does not have enough influence to convince the Russian oligarchs to give money, and the GDP adviser has such influence and such driving force.
Started dispossession?
Well, no, the state just needs money in the budget, and where to get it, except from the oligarchs? But the ideology of oligarchic capitalism cannot be destroyed by one of his loyal sons of GDP, so long as they take away part of the money, motivating weaning with special projects.
I think further, there in the future, new lists of Belousov will inevitably be compiled again and again. The state will need money all the time.
I represent the voluptuous physiognomy of the “security officer” Belousov, whom he had in drawing up his list. He will deny that he is a “security officer”. For me - yes, he is an expropriator, this is my personal strong opinion, that's it.
"Removich", it is necessary. Gref - German, Siluanov - Germanovich, Belousov - Ramovich ... Was it a random selection of German names?