One of the most influential voices bolstering Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine belongs to a 71-year-old billionaire who argued that a war could prove Russia’s strength.shares Mr. Putin’s vision of Russia
TV news channels in Mr. Kovalchuk’s National Media Group presented a calm and steady picture of motivated and highly trained reservists being called to the front lines, and they aired accusations by Russian officials that Ukraine is planning to detonate a “dirty bomb” on its own territory. Part of the logic of buying VK was to keep tabs on anti-Kremlin users, according to a person in the tech industry with ties to the Kremlin. As Russian security officials use the platform to identify and track violators of laws that ban discrediting or spreading misinformation about the Russian military, VK informally shares data about users with authorities, according to people familiar with the platform’s practices.
A physicist by training, Mr. Kovalchuk is motivated more by patriotic ideology than by the trappings of wealth, say people who know him. He doesn’t hold a formal position in the Russian government. Yet he has deep influence over Kremlin policy and personnel, and helps supply dachas and yachts for Mr. Putin’s use, and lucrative jobs and stockholdings to the president’s family and friends, according to people familiar with the deals, financial documents and anticorruption groups.who the U.S.
Mr. Kovalchuk is also a major shareholder, along with his wife and some business partners, of Sogaz, an insurance company that provides health and life insurance for Russian armed forces under contracts with Russia’s Defense Ministry and National Guard, according to public documents. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Mr. Kovalchuk quarantined and underwent regular testing to meet with Mr. Putin, who was isolating at his dachas and taking few in-person meetings, according to several people with knowledge of the relationship.
Messrs. Putin and Kovalchuk, both from St. Petersburg, go way back. In 1991, Mr. Kovalchuk and some partners acquired Bank Rossiya after its owner, the St. Petersburg Communist Party, was disbanded. Mr. Putin, then one of the city’s deputy mayors, steered business to the bank, according to the 2014 book “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?” by Karen Dawisha.Alexander Demianchuk/Zuma Press
And the WSJ is nothing but a jewish ahole-propaganda-criminal ahole toilet-paper.
I always though or education made me think that Russia was the second power nation in the world and despite all the money and weapons they were so proud of having, Russia is struggling and what makes it worse the fight is right in their border. Ukrane got some big nuts i guess
We the public do want to hear Russia POV and propaganda as well. Ironically we're not getting it. We're only receiving the western versions.
Can we subtact him from the equation somehow? The must be some way to relieve him of the burden.
Help us!🇧🇷