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To: koan who wrote (497243)	8/22/2022 1:56:41 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 542020

Russia continues to be a lawless kleptocracy. — Boris Yeltsin could have chosen Boris Nemtsov as his successor, but feared a stable legal system under Nemtsov would prosecute members of Yeltsin's family for corruption and theft. - en.wikipedia.org. Instead, Yeltsin chose Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent who collected bribes for his boss, Anatoly Sobchak the first democratically elected Mayor of St Petersburg. - en.wikipedia.org Yeltson chose Putin because after Sobchak was arrested and prosecuted for corruption, Putin arranged for Sobchak to be taken from the court room to the hospital, due to a "heart attack", and that evening had Sobchak and his wife Lyudmila Narusova, secretly flown out of the country to Paris bypassing border controls. . Anatoly Sobchak was a Soviet legal scholar who helped write the new Russian constitution and then as mayor of the wealthiest city in Russia showed he understood Russia's ongoing legal system was actually that of a corrupt kleptocracy. After consolidating his power, Putin had Boris Nemtsov and his Ukrainian partner assassinated in Red Square in 2015. The Sobchak's daughter Ksenia, the tenth most highly paid TV celebrity presenter in Russia, was picked by Putin to run against him in 2018 as the opposition candidate - primarily to undermine Alexei Nalalny. - en.wikipedia.org Post-Soviet consultants from the West had little actual influence on the direction Russia took after the Soviet era. People changed which seats they were sitting in and the language they used, as the existing kleptocracy rolled on. . Putin and daughter with Lyudmila Sobchak and daughter Ksenia at Anatoly Sobchak's funeral in Russia after Putin's mentor Anatoly Sobchak died in France. An intimate look at thief families