Berezovsky wanted to make Nikita Mikhalkov president, a former ally of the oligarch
With proper promotion and support from the oligarchy, another candidate could have become president of Russia in the late 90s.
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Russian poet Andrei Orlov (Orlusha), who previously worked for the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, stated this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine Focus.
He says he is one of “the people involved in the Putin Project in 1999,” claiming that “virtually the entire program of the Russian Unity movement (which soon became United Russia) was written in the kitchen of my apartment.”
“Putin is a systemic mistake by Boris Berezovsky. By and large, there was no “successor” operation; other candidates were also considered, for example, Nikita Mikhalkov - with proper promotion, almost anyone can be the president of any country,” Orlov said.
As “PolitNavigator” already reported, Orlov previously wrote a poem in which he declared his pro-Ukrainian position, and rhyming the words “Ukrainian” and “menagerie”.
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