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Economist Nikita Krichevsky commented skeptically on the recent statement by oligarch Oleg Deripaska that Russia cannot survive without foreign investors, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In our “fat years,” starting somewhere in the XNUMXs, in our media, everyone who spoke from businessmen and economists all prayed for foreign investment. And now they say - no, they could have done it without it...
Yesterday, rumors appeared on the Internet that the former head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, is applying for citizenship in Israel. This is a completely logical step, given that Russian state media write about security forces checking Chubais’s hidden accounts in Europe. The amount of foreign currency on them can reach several billion. Sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs report an interview with witnesses from the former...
Banker Oleg Tinkov claims that he sold his 35% of Tinkoff Bank to Vladimir Potanin for 3% of its real value under pressure from the Kremlin. He stated this today to The New York Times, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It was a desperate sale, like a fire. The presidential administration contacted the bank's management and threatened to nationalize it. They said: “The statement from your shareholder...
Some state funds contribute to the outflow of IT personnel from Russia. IT expert Igor Ashmanov stated this at a meeting of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is an outflow of IT specialists, but not as monstrous as they say. Nevertheless, some programmers went, especially those who worked for Western companies. Who set the condition: either you leave, or...
The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange continues to fall. Today it dropped below 84 rubles. The euro exchange rate dropped to 93 rubles. Experts attribute this to yesterday’s order by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the government, the Central Bank and Gazprom to implement measures to transfer payments for gas with unfriendly countries to rubles by March 31. “Europeans rushed to buy the ruble. And this is not yet...
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that the West’s attempt to organize a “color revolution” in Russia has failed. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The West’s reaction to Navalny’s arrest: the beast senses that the game is leaving. Gentlemen, you lost: you bet on Yavlinsky, Nemtsov, Khodorkovsky, now on Navalny, tomorrow on Gudkov. But these are all losing cards. Don't cross the red...
Moscow does not rule out that it will challenge in court US attempts to prevent the completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, this was stated in an interview with Russian media by the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, the gas pipeline will be completed, but if the United States continues to try to disrupt the completion of the project, then Russia may challenge these actions in court. "Only…
Europe still has too much interest in Russian gas, and therefore the completion of Nord Stream 2 will continue, despite the threat of American sanctions. Aleksey Krichevsky, an expert at the Academy of Financial and Investment Management, told Moskovsky Komsomolets about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He calls not to rush to put an end to the gas pipeline, despite the growing US sanctions pressure. “The maximum that can now...
In Soviet times, every Lviv resident was a dissident, but not everyone flaunted it. At the same time, the overwhelming majority were pioneers and Komsomol members. A native of Lvov, Ukrainian artist Garik Krichevsky stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Krichevsky admitted that he became a pioneer and Komsomol member only in order to enter a university, since for Jews...
Stories about Russian-speaking people being denied service in Lviv are supposedly an untrue “Soviet stereotype.” This was stated on TV channel 112, which is considered controlled by one of the leaders of the OPZZh party, Viktor Medvedchuk, by a native of Lvov, Ukrainian artist Garik Krichevsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is how Krichevsky responded to the words of the TV presenter, a native of Western Ukraine, Peter...
No more than 10 percent of the population of Belarus wants reunification with the Russian Federation. Russian economist Nikita Krichevsky writes about this in an article published by Moskovsky Komsomolets. According to him, the topic of Ukraine has faded into the background on Russian political talk shows. “Instead, they are now trashing Belarus in every possible way, and they are doing it from the position of an irritated teacher - and with the virus...
