Four circles of Putin’s friends: the Russian oppositionist told which of the businessmen is closest to the Russian president .
Ilya Ponomarev ,
KYIV. UkraineGate . 24 . June . 2022 | Society.
The Russian president has a close circle of business friends with whom he has a mutually beneficial relationship. Former State Duma deputy .
In his opinion, all close businessmen can be divided into 4 circles.
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“In fact, Putin has four grades in business that he deals with. He has denominations – that is, people close to him, such as Roldugin.
The second circle is people like Kovalchuk, who are personal friends and serve the business interests of Mr. Putin personally.
The third circle, to which I would include Rothenberg, are especially close business partners, whom, on the one hand, Putin can actively help, and on the other hand, in return, they can do him the right favor.
The fourth circle is not his own circle, but he simply inherited the oligarchs of Yeltsin’s time, with whom he has a good working relationship, “Ponomarev explained.
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Ponomarev noted that Arkady Rotenberg belongs to the third circle close to Putin. He is a fairly close and trusted person to whom the Russian president entrusts especially important state orders, such as the Crimean bridge, said the former State Duma deputy.
Let’s add
Arkady Rotenberg is a Russian oligarch who owns a large number of businesses, including the Ministry of Fertilizers, more than 75% of whose products were previously exported, half of which was supplied via the Togliatti-Odesa pipeline.
Another Russian product was transported through this pipe – ammonia, which is produced at the TogliattiAzot plant. It belongs to another Russian oligarch, Dmitry Mazepin.
A few days before the war in Ukraine, Mazepin talked to Russian President Putin and promised to “surrender” Odessa in exchange for control of the OPP.
It will be recalled that back in 2015, the Mirror of the Week newspaper stated that Dmytro Mazepin was negotiating the purchase of the Odessa Port Plant.
Source: Ukrgate
