Vladimir Putin is surrounded by people who have enriched themselves and enriched him. Billionaire oligarchs, bankers or trusted people work in a system completely dependent on the Kremlin leader. Also, Putin put many people in the positions they are in now and in which they got rich.

Others are rich only because Putin allows them to, as long as they play his way. Russia is ruled by a so-called kleptocracy. A caste of people who exclusively exploit the resources of the state, accumulating huge fortunes, under the protection of a corrupt political system. Whose head is in the Kremlin.

Putin created a cabal that he carefully recruited from his youth. Either from his colleagues in the KGB, from Dresden, or from starting work as a civil servant in the city hall of St. Petersburg, immediately after the collapse of the USSR, where he combined relations with the secret services with the opportunity to earn money like a master. combinations collapsed state. All of them faithfully followed Putin to Moscow.

As Putin advanced in the FSB, then to the top of the Russian state, becoming prime minister and president, so did they. Putin promoted their business, put them in positions of power or directly headed some state-owned companies that manage Russia’s vast natural resources.

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