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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin Volume I, by Essel, Part I

2008-02-17 14:25:51 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion dollars, third largest in the world after China (which has over 1.5 trillion) and Japan (980 billion). The Russian Stabilisation Fund has grown to 157 billion dollars All this is true....
 
Tags: gigantic non-government media, media, giant gazprom-media, putins, putins political, putins friends, russian, russian federation, banks owners
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin via Essel, Part 3

2008-02-20 18:25:34 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion rubles in 2000; in 2006 it was more that 220 billio n [1] . It is easy to work out from this that the cost of opening one kilometre of new road has risen tenfold (or fivefold if one...
 
Tags: die, million people die, road system, road, putin, road network, thousand people die, normal road surface, effective road network
 
 
 
 
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Pauper or Oligarch - The Strange Case of Putin's Wealth

2008-01-04 12:55:00 by W. Shedd in The Accidental Russophile
 
...billion and among the richest men in the world Belkovsky lists as Putin assets, owned secretly through various other parties and nefarious private means 37% of Surgutneftegaz (estimated worth...
 
Tags: putin, putin seeks, putin controls, putin assets, putin lost, president putin, company, joint-stock company, president putin declares
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin via Essel, Part 5

2008-02-24 18:24:23 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion were made available. This rose to $10 billion in 2007 with $12 billion planned for 2008. Sibneft was bought from Abramovich for more than the yearly allocation to all the national...
 
Tags: national project, agro-industrial national project, education national project, social, real social reforms, reforms, constitution, constitution guarantees citizens, health
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin via Essel, Part 7

2008-02-28 11:28:30 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billionaires. In 1999-200, Forbes List carried not a single Russian. By 2007 there were 53 and their total wealth amount to $282 billion First place went by rights to Roman Abramovich with...
 
Tags: putin, swiss oil, oil, oil prices, economy, competitive economy, involvement, government involvement, government
 
 
 
 
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Dual Power, Time Soft on Putin, Russia Doesnt Matter, and P-Dawgs Bling

2008-01-04 20:56:17 by Sean in Sean's Russia Blog
 
...billion. I liked Leonid Radzikhovskys response to Belkovskys claim. It is difficult to understand Belkovsky. He is known as a source of confusing information and it is hard to treat it...
 
Tags: putin, power, russia, medvedev-putin dyad, medvedev, putins, putins circle, matter, book putin
 
 
 
 
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EDITORIAL: Putin's Russia, Running on Empty

2008-04-27 12:19:24 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion roubles ($4.62 billion), to International Financial Reporting Standards, from 141 billion roubles in the same period last year and below the average of 129 billion roubles in a Reuters...
 
Tags: russia, production, russian oil production, develop russia, develop, russia scholar, neo-soviet regime, neo-soviet, replace russia
 
 
 
 
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The Sunday Slush Fund: More on Vladimir Putin's Personal Corruption

2008-01-06 02:27:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion Stabilisation Fund, created in 2004 to cushion the budget from a fall in oil prices, was being exploited by members of the ruling elite for their personal benefit. He gave no details of...
 
Tags: putin, vladimir putin, putin owned, putin controls, billion stabilisation fund, billion, fund, stabilisation fund, belkovsky
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemstov on Putin via Essel, Part 4

2008-02-22 17:25:15 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion rubles. This will rise to 251.4 billion in 2009 (over $10 billion). According to Mr. Batanov,who heads the RPF, up to 1 trillion rubles will be needed by 2015 Meanwhile, pensions are...
 
Tags: pensions reform, pensions, pensions systems, pensions system, modern pensions system, russian, russian pension system, fund, pension fund deficit
 
 
 
 
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Vladimir Putin: Mother of All Oligarchs?

2007-12-26 01:09:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...billion in energy assets - enough to make him Europe's richest man. Stanislav Belkovsky, a colourful figure on the political scene, claimed that Mr Putin had made a multi-billion pound fortune...
 
Tags: putin, putin controls, president vladimir putin, belkovsky, stanislav belkovsky, president, belkovsky named, rival siloviki faction, kremlin