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CNN —Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on Friday took aim at Russia’s “corrupt” elite that placed President Vladimir Putin in power. “I hate Yeltsin, […] Chubais and the rest of the corrupt family who put Putin in power,” he said, referring to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and former high-level Russian official Anatoly Chubais. “Is there any other country where so many ministers of (a) government of reforms became millionaires and billionaires? But he said “Russia will still have a chance” to turn things around into the democratic direction. Moscow has denied involvement in the poisoning, with Putin himself saying in December 2020 that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they “would have finished” the job.

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☆ Putin has banned top officials from resigning as Russian casualties mount in Ukraine, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kremlin officials have been banned from resigning, a Russian independent media outlet says. Those who do try to leave are threatened with prosecution, according to the report. Those who do try to leave are threatened with prosecution, according to the report. The report said that under the mobilisation decree signed by President Vladimir Putin in September 2022, FSB officials are banned from resigning even after their contract expires. The Kremlin has clamped down on expressing opposition to the Ukraine war, introducing draconian laws outlawing dissent, and jailing scores of critics.

"It could be some kind of non-controlling stake in public companies," Kostin said in the interview. COMPETITIONHe said some industries lacked competition, a hangover from Soviet times, a consequence of which would ultimately see more investors take money elsewhere. Telecoms operator Rostelecom (RTKM.MM), defence conglomerate Rostec and state nuclear energy company Rosatom could have subsidiaries privatised, he said, adding: "The main thing is not to miss the moment when we can attract private money here." Under that programme, state property was sold very cheaply to well-connected businessmen who became known as "oligarchs". "We have a different country now, a different president, a different government that cannot allow what happened then," he said.

☆ Most of Putin's presidental administration is secretly against the Ukraine war but don't dare tell him: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Much of Putin's presidential administration is opposed to the Ukraine war, the FT reported. Members of Russia's presidential administration and economic cabinet have told friends they are against the war, according to the Financial Times, whose report drew on the insight of multiple unnamed Putin confidants and former officials. The presidential administration consists of top-level officials who act as the leader's executive office. People close to the president told the FT that Putin's fatal flaw is his weakness for loyalty — valuing this over competence. "They need to be honest with him and they are not," a figure close to Putin told the paper.

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