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Karen Dawisha
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“Russians seeking to move money to the West... can establish an LLC and purchase... [real estate] property without revealing... the actual owner...”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Putin... believes ...[the West] can easily be manipulated through appealing to investors' and bankers' interests.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[D]ocuments and newspaper articles that were once on Russian [websites] were scrubbed.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had published six books already with Cambridge.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The and its supporters use the courts to scare off researchers who want to expose the corruption at the core of this regime.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also got a few reviews from people who said, "ok, so they're corrupt, but it's not a ." So... what do I mean by saying that... a political system is a kleptocracy?”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm talking about a system in which risk is nationalized and reward is privatized. Only those loyal to Putin enjoy the benefits of this rule. ...It ...is not the case for many hundreds of thousands of small or medium-sized business owners in Russia who are subject to this... raiding by those above them... Property rights are secured by loyalty and not by law. They could take their claims to court, but those court decisions are political... and so the market... is hugely distorted by political considerations. There's no transparency.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot is written now about the system now is 2.0. I yearn for the Politburo in trying to figure out what is going on in Russia. ...We don't know when decisions are made. There is no Alexandrov column in Pravda with... the criminological way of talking that allows... us... to understand what... direction the regime is going... There's huge lack of certainty... in the west and in the elite... about what is Putin's view on anything on any given day.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“is very important... It's a from the bottom to the absolute top... [[Loyalty|[L]oyalty]] and silence are demanded in return.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While we talked about the failure of the 1991 coup... the failure of the efforts by the conservatives to oust Gorbachev... it's a much more complex situation. ...[S]ome ...were quickly tried and put into jail, but for very short periods and very few people... even though this was a nation-wide conspiracy... 1991 failed as an incident, but the effort to return... preeminence... as a protector of the grand Russian idea... became part of the project of bringing Putin to power in 2000.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So 91 failed but 2000 succeeded...”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]his older generation of KGB generals... who were not in prison, put people in and got them prepared, and Putin was the one who rose to the top... That's my argument.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So they laundered money. They kept it abroad, first for the CPSU and then for themselves.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the book I detail the many cases that I investigated in Saint Petersburg of Putin's involvement with illicit activities, illicit groups.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yevgeniy Gontmakher... deputy director of Moscow’s Institute of World Economy and International Relations... "[T]here is no state in Russia. ...millions of ...bureaucrats work," but they do not perform the [state] function... "Instead of... implementing the course of a developing country, we have a ...private structure ...diverting profits...[T]here isn't even a pale copy of ...the formation of the state." The Parliament had become "...another department of ...Presidential Administration" ...with the ...legal system, and bureaucrats who thought they worked for the state ... [but] serve only the interests of ...[a] "monopolistic business structure which can do anything it likes" and ...controls "...50 percent of the economy.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Russian state does not exist Movskoskiy Komsomolets (Aug 18, 2013) Note: N/Google Translate Russian.
“[A] rich... hybrid combination of Chekists, mobsters, and officials in bureaucratic positions of power existed throughout the USSR... Putin was at the nexus of these three worlds: ...[A] former ...employee, "Nikolay" ...claims ...he was approached by his superior ...1990 to be part of the following scheme:...a new clandestine structure ...Your personnel files will be removed ...No one will ...know your past. ...you will ...work for the Fatherland. Against those who want to destroy it. ...I worked ...cleaning up the archives of the . ...hundreds of [files] removed. Including ...Putin. After the failed coup of '91... as the chief financial officer ...on behalf of the KGB. ...Money ...and more money. ...in one offshore paradise or another. We... were moving millions and millions of dollars into bank vaults. ....along those same channels ...money from organized crime ...I would not be able to tell which monies belonged to the KGB and which to the mafia. In response to ...questions, they responded: just move the damn money. And I did.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Carlo Bonini, Giuseppe D'Avanzo, "I Cekisti al Potere" [The Checkists in power] (Jul 15, 2001)
“Spanish... officials... having intercepted ..."hundreds" of phone calls ...about [Gennady Nikolaevich] Petrov's "immense power... political connections... [and] criminal activity in Russia ...directed from Spain....Troika mafia leaders invoked ...names of senior ...[Russian] officials to assure ...illicit deals would proceed ..." ...[I]n 1990 with the purchase ...of ...[a] Hotel in , Majorca ...with Leningrad Communist Party and funds ...Petrov was able to host ...notables, including ...mayor , Putin'’s boss. Reznik... and... wife... were co-owners of... companies with... Petrov and , also arrested on suspicion of , , and the establishment of a criminal structure that traded in , , and murder ...traced back to ...the monopoly ...given by the St. Petersburg government to the Tambov criminal organization in ...gasoline in the 1990s.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: 1) Luis Gomez, "¿Vuelven los rusos poco recomendables?" [Do unsavory Russians return?] El País (Feb 1, 2013) 2) Francisco Mercado, "Apresados en España los jefes de la principal organización mafiosa rusa" [Bosses a…
“Sergey Ivanov, Nikolay Patrushev, Aleksandr Grigor’yev, Vladimir Strzhelkovskiy, and were... contemporaries of Putin in the Leningrad in the 1980s. ...Patrushev and Ivanov... remained... closest to him. ...Strzhelkovskiy ...worked in the Leningrad ... In... 1990 he created... Neva ...[later] official travel agency of ...St. Petersburg ...Putin ...named Strzhelkovskiy deputy minister... of ...sports, and tourism, and after 2000... of economic development and trade... In 2008... [he] was named CEO of... ... world’s largest... and [producer]... [with] support... of Putin... [and] ....When he ...resigned in 2012 with a $100 million cash , the New York Times summarized... "...another data point in the shift of corporate wealth and influence away from the first generation ...oligarchs... toward ...former security service agents ...under... Putin.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: 1) Andrew E. Kramer, "Mining Executive Receives Payout of $100 Million, Russia’s Largest Ever" New York Times (Dec 17, 2012) 2) Henry Plater-Zyberk, "The Russian Decisionmakers in the Chechen Conflict" Defence Acad…
“Putin began his political career in St. Petersburg in... 1990, as advisor to... Mayor Anatoliy Sobchak, and later as the deputy... mayor... From... 1991, to... 1996, he was... chairman of the Committee for Foreign Liaison (KVS)... regulating, and licensing foreign investment in St. Petersburg and Russian investment... abroad... uniquely positioned to regulate... money, goods, and services into and out of Russia’s largest trading city... When Putin went to work for Sobchak, he immediately began to gather ...the core group ...who would work with him throughout the 1990s... into his presidency. They came from... the KGB, the Main Intelligence Directorate (...GRU), , and legal and business circles. ...[T]he inner core consisted of Dmitriy Medvedev, , , , , , , , Aleksey Miller, , and .”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shamalov... was hired by Putin in 1993. The conflict of interest was massive. Kolesnikov... described... [Dmitri] Gorelov... director of Petromed, ordering medical equipment; Shamalov... representative of , delivering the equipment... a good friend of Putin, with whom he went on to found... .... Kolesnikov said, "When Shamalov came to us with a proposal... we understood... this was... directly from Vladimir Vladimirovich." Gorelov believed that... Putin’s KVS... provided the "roof" to protect against... organized crime. When Vladimir Yakovlev became governor of St. Petersburg... the relationship... [with] Petromed... soured, and Gorelov and Kolesnikov bought... the city's stake... They became major shareholders in Bank Rossiya, purchased a stake in s, and by the mid-2000s were... in the Russia... richest Russians. Kolesnikov... ultimately became a whistleblower... [claiming] diversion of funds... to build ".”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: 1) Sergei Kolesnikov, Interviewed by Masha Gessen et al.: 'Pochemy Ya rasskazal pro Dvorets Putina. My pereshli granitsy mezhdy dobrom i zlom v 2009 gody' [Sergei Kolesnikov: Why I told about the Palace of Putin. "…
“No action was more symbolic of the intention of the group around Putin... than the registration... 1996, of the Ozero Dacha Consumer Cooperative... establishing... Vladimir Smirnov as its leader. ...[O]ther members ...Nikolay Shamalov, Vladimir Putin, , Yuriy Koval'chuk, Viktor Myachin, ...Sergey ...and ...Andrey Fursenko. ...This group ...stayed by Putin throughout his ...period in office, and ...all made hundreds of millions and... billions of dollars. ...[A] cooperative... is a... way for Putin to avoid being given money directly, while enjoying... wealth shared among co-owners. ... Smirnov had long been "closely linked with the well-known 'mafia' businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin).”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: , Boris Nemtsov, , Ol'ga Shorina, "Putin. Corruption. An Independent White Paper" Putin-Itogi.ru. (2011)
“The Economist outlined the essential truths of the Putin era...The job of Russian law enforcers is to protect the interests of the state, personified by their... boss, against the people. ...[F]ormer (and not so former) members ...have gained huge political and ...since ...Putin came to office. ...[T]op ranks in the ...FSB ...describe themselves as the ...new nobility ...personally loyal to the monarch and entitled to an estate with people to serve ...As Russia’s former Procurator General ...said in front of ...Putin: "We are the people of the sovereign." Thus they do not see a redistribution of property from private hands into their own as theft but as their right.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: "Grease My Palm: Bribery and corruption have become endemic" Economist (Nov 27, 2008)
“Vladimir S. Milov......[T]hese guys have benefited and made their fortunes through deals which involved state-controlled companies... operating under... direct control of government and the president... [C]ose friends of Putin... of relatively moderate means before Putin came to power all of a sudden turned out to be billionaires. ...[A]t the same time ...income disparity in Russia had never been worse, with the superrich doubling their wealth and the bottom fifth of the population in 2011 making only 55 percent of ...1991 earnings ...despite Putin’s electoral claims that his rule had brought prosperity ...”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: 1) , as quoted by Andrew E. Kramer, David M. Herszenhorn, "Midas Touch in St. Petersburg: Friends of Putin Glow Brightly." The New York Times (March 1, 2012) 2) Tom Parfitt, "Russia’s Rich Double Their Wealth, but …
“The book contains major sections on Bank Rossiya, on the food scandel in Saint Petersburg in the early 90s, on Putin's involvement in the control and emergence of the gambling industry in Saint Petersburg, Putin's involvement as a member of the board of the St. Petersburg Real Estate Holding Company [St. Peterburg Immobilien und Beteiligungs AG]... registered in Germany... investigated by and B&D for its involvement in the laundering of money from the Cali Cartel, ...giving ...a monopoly position to the Tambov gang in the , ...creating and using... money from the mayor's contingency fund through... Twentieth Trust... and the unauthorized use of funds from the mayor's contingency fund in getting an apartment for himself in Saint Petersburg...”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]n... 89-91... the and the conservatives within the Central Committee saw what was happening in Poland, Hungary and... East Germany and became extremely frightened about the unreliability of Gorbachev to... secure their future. They worried that... the communists would have to run as one of many parties, and... be wiped out in the elections, as happened in Poland and Hungary... [T]hey started to move money abroad along established KGB channels... kept safe for the communist party in the event that it became an unfunded legally bound party... [I]nstead... after the 1991 coup the communist party was... outlawed. So... conflict and contention started amongst... KGB groups as to who had knowledge of where the money was.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My basic argument is... Putin, as deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg worked with the mafia to make their activities legal. He was in a position within the government to provide license and registrations... for items going out... and coming into the country. He sent, over his signature, Tambov mafia leaders as members of cultural delegations to Germany. ...[I]n Saint Petersburg ...White Nights was a mafia front ...[F]rom the very beginning there were people involved with cultural exchanges... gambling [etc.,]... very close to Putin who were using their position for [cross-border exchanges of] goods and services... [E]ven in 1991-92 that border wasn't open for people who had a criminal record. So he verified for their applications for visas that they had no criminal record.”
Karen Dawisha (1949–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source