Chapter 951 Putin's Big Appetite "Please Guarantee Monthly Tickets"

Putin is most concerned about more than one issue.

Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna, was a factory worker, and his father, Vladimir Spiridonovich. Putin served in the Soviet Navy.

Putin's father served in a submarine force in the 1930s and later served as a demolition crew for the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs in World War II. Putin’s grandfather, Spiridon, served as Lenin and Stalin’s personal chef.

Putin was very naughty when he was a child and only became a Young Pioneer in the sixth grade. Later he graduated from the International Law Department of Leningrad University with a doctorate in economics. He then joined the KGB and worked in the Leningrad District. During this time he became familiar with Sergey, who later served as Russia's Defense Minister. Ivanov.

He joined the Soviet Communist Party in college and has not officially announced his withdrawal from the Communist Party.

In 1976, the year Fan Wubing was born, Putin completed KGB training. Two years later, he entered the confidential department of the Leningrad intelligence agency, and then studied at the KGB school in Moscow for a year.

Later, the KGB sent Putin to East Germany for five years, where he got a secondary job. However, according to information, the so-called secondary job was actually a spy mission. Putin was in East Germany to collect economic intelligence on West Germany at the time.

After the reunification of the two Germanys, Putin was recalled to Leningrad. After that, Putin got a position in the Department of International Affairs of Leningrad University. On August 20, 1991, he resigned from his position in the intelligence agency during the period when the KGB was planning to overthrow Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev.

From agent to president, this change is enough for Putin to attract the attention of most people. Fan Wubing is also very interested in this young and powerful new Russian president, but it is obvious that he knows far more about Putin than others.

After understanding Putin's experience, Fan Wubing suddenly realized that Putin was an important force in helping Yeltsin overthrow Gorbachev's rule. No wonder Yeltsin worked so hard to push Putin to the position of Russia's top leader. , it is really because Putin made a considerable contribution to him at that time, and this contribution cannot be praised positively.

After all, spy work cannot be seen in the light. In the past, the heads of espionage departments in various countries were basically in darkness all year round and had no access to sunny politics. Although they had very strong strength, their professional characteristics destined them to be unable to become public figures. figure.

Of course, this law was broken by Putin. From the head of the secret service to the president, this step was very good and powerful.

"We still have a lot of things we can cooperate with -" Putin changed the topic and said to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing has adapted to Putin's teleportation style of conversation. He said in his heart that negotiating with the president, the chief secret agent, really feels a little different. Basically, there are no polite words. If he uses any words to describe Putin, it should be said that he is like a person. A well-functioning supercomputer, every step of the way is perfect and there is no plan left behind.

"Are you human?" Fan Wubing couldn't help but asked in a depressed tone.

After hearing this sentence, the translator was a little stunned. Probably he had never encountered anyone talking to the Russian President. For a moment, he didn't know whether the sentence should be translated?

He was so stunned that Putin naturally reacted. He looked at the translator with great confusion, then looked at Fan Wubing, and said something to the translator.

Then the translator somewhat narrated what Fan Wubing had just said to Putin, but it had obviously been processed. It was impossible to directly question whether Putin was a human being like Fan Wubing did?

The corners of Putin's mouth twitched.

Then he said to Fan Wubing, "You must have loopholes in your work, and you must be focused. The operation of the Russian state machinery itself is a huge system. As the president of the Russian Federation, of course I must operate with such precision. What you said , I can take it as an affirmation of my work.”

Fan Wubing curled his lips, raised the glass filled with red wine and gave him a distant salute, and then said, "As for the Japanese problem, I will solve it. I don't want to do anything about killing, isn't it? Do you want to arouse the collective hatred of the Japanese people in the international community? This is very simple!”

"That's good. I need results within a short period of time. Can three months be enough?" Putin nodded and asked.

"There should be no problem." Fan Wubing thought for a moment and then replied.

"That's good. Let's talk about other cooperation issues next." Putin suggested.

In the name of Fan Investment Group, the cooperation with the Russian government is all-round. After all, the large aircraft project is now also under Fan Investment Group! Under the $ group, there are other energy cooperation, mineral resource development and the manufacturing of some large-scale digital equipment, etc. The two people had in-depth exchanges on certain key issues and made many important cooperation decisions.

In fact, Fan Wubing came here this time for two main purposes. One is to strengthen cooperation with Russia on large aircraft projects and introduce Russian engine technology. The other is to strengthen cooperation in energy and minerals, mainly in Siberia. Oil and gas field development.

The main reason is that Putin is wary of some domestic oil and gas companies.

The main reason why Putin is discussing the development of oil and gas fields with Fan Wubing is to guard against the threat of energy oligarchs represented by Gutseliev, so as not to shake his own securities.

Gutseriev is an Ingush, with a strong sense of family and blood relationship. He is only 42 years old now. He was born in Kazakhstan. His grandparents and parents were forcibly relocated there from the Ingush Autonomous Republic during the war.

During Khrushchev's rule, they were rehabilitated and the family returned to Karabulak. Gutseriev worked as a warehouse porter and chemical technician. Later, he entered the Moscow Gubkin Petrochemical Institute and set his sights on oil and natural gas. He returned to Grozny, which produces high-quality oil.

Soon, Gorbachev promoted phthalates and called on people to create cooperatives. Gutseriev founded a furniture company jointly owned by Russia and Italy. In the former Soviet Union, which had been closed for many years, his Italian furniture was unprecedentedly popular. Gutseriev accumulated the first original capital. Later, he founded a bank and became a famous entrepreneur in the Chechen Ingush Autonomous Republic. His reputation quickly spread throughout the North Caucasus. In 1991, Gutseriev was elected chairman of the country's Entrepreneurs Association.

Gutseriev has no connections with the upper echelons, no special favors from the top government officials, he is a genuine grassroots faction, his business methods are different from everything else, it is no longer a business, but the possession of other people's property. "

However, his rise to wealth fully reflects this characteristic of "possessing other people's property".

In 1994, there was a boom in the construction of free economic zones in Russia.

In St. Petersburg, Putin initiated and was responsible for the establishment of free economic preferential zones that year. Gutseriev was appointed as the administrative head of the Ingushetia Free Economic Zone, and he decided to give up business and go into politics. The following year, he failed to run for the second Russian State Duma, and was elected as the deputy chairman of the Duma, responsible for coordinating the work of the Industry, Construction, Transportation and Power Committee, Science and Education Committee, Agricultural Issues Committee, Nationalities Affairs Committee, etc., and contacts with Arab countries and Near Eastern countries.

In the following years, Gutseriev was regarded as the guardian of the solution to the Chechen-Ingushetia issue. In December 2014, he was re-elected as a deputy to the State Duma as an independent candidate. In February of this year, Russia and Belarus established the joint oil company Slavneft, and he was elected as the company's president.

Similar to Gutseriev is Berezovsky.

Berezovsky is a mathematician, financier, media tycoon and political genius, and is a legendary figure.

Berezovsky, who was originally a mathematics professor, was the largest middleman of the Russian Automobile Union in the early 1990s. He made hundreds of millions of dollars in one or two years. First, he got the "Lada" car at the export price (about US$5,555/vehicle), and then sold it for US$75D. Secondly, he collected the down payment for the car from the buyer and delayed for several years. He would pay the factory a month later, and under conditions of hyperinflation, he would get the equivalent of half a car's worth of oil and water.

But this was only a small part. Berezovsky was also trading other brand-name cars, naturally, this was done under the condition of evading customs duties.

Berezovsky also made dirty money in the oil sector relatively smoothly. Led by his banking consortium, he acquired 51% of the shares of Siberian Oil Company Holding Company through mortgage auction. The company's oil production ranked sixth in Russia and its reserves ranked eighth.

In the process of mortgage auction, accompanied by serious violations of government-imposed rules, Berezovsky seized the controlling stake in Siberian Oil Company and used his connections with the government to relations, squeezing out competitors. At the same time, Berezovsky is also the largest shareholder and actual controller of the Russian Public Television. In the propaganda campaign before the election, the public television channel, like other national and private television channels, worked for Yeltsin. Berezovsky was called the Red Godfather of the Kremlin by Americans.

After Putin took over the presidency from Yeltsin, he firmly opposed the financial oligarchs' involvement in politics. Berezovsky refused to give in and formed a political party, Zan by Russia, which made Putin very angry. Gutseriev did the same thing, supporting his brother to get involved in politics, and others relied on financial strength to compete with Putin.

"Now, six emerging private consortiums control about half of the Russian economy. These six consortiums are six financial and industrial groups founded and led by Berezovsky himself, Potanin, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky, Aven and Friedman, Smolensky and other seven people. "Putin said to Fan Wubing, "In order to consolidate the regime and develop the economy, Yeltsin issued a presidential decree to encourage the establishment of financial and industrial groups. Many financial and industrial groups quickly achieved capital expansion while acting as agents for the functions and businesses of the state bank. The total amount of state budget funds in Potanin's private bank Onexim Bank is even more than twice that of the state-owned Russian Savings Bank. By using state funds to expand its own funds, Onexim Bank, which was established only two years ago, quickly became the third largest bank in Russia. These are all unstable factors.

Fan Wubing nodded in agreement. He was now very clear that after the Russian financial oligarchs developed with the support of the government, they would naturally extend their tentacles to the political world. Potanin, who was once the first deputy prime minister of Russia, made no secret of the fact that inviting big entrepreneurs to enter the government was a completely logical step because it could bring concrete benefits. On the day when the news of Potanin's appointment as the first deputy prime minister was announced, the stocks of the companies in the consortium he managed soared. The stocks of the Norlilisk Nickel Plant, which was mortgaged to the Potanin consortium, rose all day, and the stocks of other financial and industrial groups also rose.

Of course, as the head of the government, it is impossible to allow businessmen to get involved in their own sphere of influence so easily.

During Yeltsin's tenure, Berezovsky was removed from the post of deputy secretary of the Security Council, marking an important step for the Russian government to get rid of oligarchic capital! &. However, it was Putin who dealt a decisive blow to the financial and industrial groups and intended to end the era of Russian oligarchs.

After the Putin government came to power, it wanted to reverse the economic downturn in Russia, solve a series of social, political and economic contradictions, and began to re-strengthen the control of state-owned capital. In addition, the political impulse of financial oligarchs represented by Gutseriyev and Berezovsky made the conflict between the two sides inevitable.

However, in view of the current economic reality of Russia and the ability of oligarchs to control the economic lifeline, Putin did not forget his principles when he exerted his iron fist. After each contest, Putin had to summon other rich people to the Kremlin and repeatedly stated that his marketization and privatization policies would not change.

"Now I'm tired of dealing with these parasites. I need to solve these tedious affairs as soon as possible, so that Russia can get on the normal track of development!" Putin said to Fan Wubing, "So, I need more economic assistance!"

"How much money do you need?" Fan Wubing felt that Putin's offer would definitely be very high this time, but he didn't know how much he would offer. If it was too much, it would be difficult for him to decide. After all, although Russia has many good things, he must be able to move them back home.

After all, the last loan that Russian President Yeltsin got from him has not been repaid yet.

"I need $50 billion in economic assistance!" Putin offered his price.

"$50 billion?!" Fan Wubing couldn't help but get up from the sofa after hearing this, and asked with wide eyes.