2008 will Reread Putin’s Prime Minister’s Common Lover [Photos]
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Putin is taking a power curve for his future, no matter how tortuous the route is, leading to power is the only decision-making choice; Regardless of Putin’s future political fate, it is certain that he will still play a decisive role in Russia’s future development for a long time.
Putin
During Yeltsin’s reign, Putin was not a nobody. Only in the Kremlin, he is behind the scenes. Before he became the first deputy prime minister and acting prime minister of the Russian Federation government on August 9, 1999, he was a real power figure: since August 1996, he has been the deputy director of President Yeltsin’s affairs administration, responsible for the work of the legal bureau and Russian foreign property. From 1997 to 1998, he served as deputy director of the President’s Office and director of the General Administration of Supervision of Russian President Yeltsin. Since July 24, 1998, he has served as director of the Russian Federal Security Service. In the future, he became a colonel in reserve service, replacing General Kovalev who held this post. Since March 29, 1999, he has also served as Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Being behind the scenes and holding such an important series of positions makes Putin’s body shrouded in a layer of fog, which makes him unclear and unpredictable. Even the mass media can’t find a "standard photo" of Putin when he takes office as the director of the Federal Security Service. In addition, his dual identity makes him more puzzled by the world: first, his KGB experience, and second, his status as a close aide to the mayor of St. Petersburg, sobchak. This also happens to be a political card in Yeltsin’s hand. In the last few months of Yeltsin’s administration, he played several "Prime Minister’s Cards", and Putin was one of these cards, but Yeltsin refused to play this card. The reason why he didn’t fight was because of Putin’s "mystery". Yeltsin wanted to use this "secret weapon" to win a key victory for himself at a critical moment. When Yeltsin chose Stepachen or Putin as prime minister, he considered this: "However, my intuition tells me that it is too early to put Putin on the stage of political struggle, and he should come out later. Too little time for political acceleration is not good, and too much may be worse. Society should not be allowed to get used to Putin in these’ lazy’ summer months. His mystery should not disappear. Unexpected and sudden factors should not disappear, factors linked with new powerful politicians. This is crucial for the election. "
Maintaining Putin’s mystery has become a key factor and an indispensable condition for the development of Russian political process today.
From St. Petersburg
Putin’s "KGB" experience is now known to all. However, little is known so far that Putin himself is not proud of this experience. In 1990, Putin reported his resignation to the KGB shortly after returning to Leningrad from the GDR. On August 20, 1991, the day after the "August 19 incident", Putin made a report for the second time and insisted on resigning from the "KGB". He was approved to resign. According to the rules of "KGB", the backbone personnel of "KGB" are never allowed to leave their posts, and can only be transferred to "serving as reserve backbone personnel". After Putin was allowed to resign, he ran to his friend Shadhan who worked in Leningrad TV station and said, "Igor, I want to talk frankly and sincerely about my past work. That’s it, because it’s no longer a secret, and no one can threaten me with it anymore. " Putin and Shadehan had a long conversation, and Shadehan recorded the conversation as a program. During the conversation, he asked Putin in detail about his work in the KGB, what he did and when he worked in the intelligence agency. This program was later broadcast on Leningrad TV. Putin’s resignation and "confessing" his KGB experience to the audience showed his ambition to make progress politically. He didn’t want his experience to be used in the future, which would affect the promotion of his career, so whenever someone hinted at his past to Putin later, he would say, "I told you everything." There’s nothing interesting. Everyone knows about all this. "
Before transferring from Leningrad University to St. Petersburg Municipal Government, he had an open talk with Mayor sobchak. He said to sobchak, "I should tell you that I am not only an assistant to the headmaster, but also a key officer of the KGB. However, I have resigned now. " Sobchak accepted Putin, and later he said, "He explained this decision to me because he didn’t agree with the policy initiated by the new leader of the committee. Putin went so thoroughly that he was not even included in the reserve list of his current position, so he never surpassed the rank he had when he left office in the past 10 years. " Sobchak’s evaluation of Putin is: "I have always held a negative attitude towards the KGB and have no contact with this organization, but I have complete trust in Putin. Once he told me that he broke off the relationship with the Committee, that is to say, that’s what happened. Later, I found that some people around me continued to cooperate with the KGB, but Vladimir vladimirovich did not give me reason to doubt his honesty and decency. "
Putin is really loyal to sobchak. He became sobchak’s most reliable assistant, helping him to make decisions and carry out the tasks he entrusted. When sobchak’s struggle with the highest level of power was in a losing position, even when he was imprisoned, tried and his life was in danger, Putin extended a helping hand in time, and finally planned and arranged sobchak’s escape from Paris. In 1996, when sobchak was running for mayor, Putin took the oath of "loyalty", stating that if sobchak was not elected, they would collectively resign from the municipal government. But after sobchak lost the election, Putin and many others really did this. To this end, sobchak is very grateful to Putin: "Not only did he not betray me like many others, but he also sent a letter to the highest authority to defend me."
During Putin’s tenure as deputy mayor and first deputy mayor of St. Petersburg and in charge of the work of the Foreign Economic Liaison Committee, he led the planning and implementation of the St. Petersburg Free Economic Zone, and established a joint venture to produce Coca-Cola and similar joint ventures. At this time, Putin merged with the elites from the Economics Department and Law Department of St. Petersburg University around sobchak, and became a unique person among them with his own education in the Law Department and his practice in the KGB. He has his own group of like-minded people, including Zubcov, who is now nominated by Putin as prime minister.
Putin appeared on the political stage under the banner of sobchak and began to attract attention, but Putin finally fulfilled sobchak, and because of this fulfillment, Putin was able to rank among the first-class Russian politicians. So far, people have always said that Putin brought people from St. Petersburg into the Kremlin after taking power. But the actual situation is just the opposite. It was the legal and economic elites around sobchak who first came to the Kremlin to participate in politics and take power. When sobchak lost the election and Putin "had no job", it was these people who brought Putin into the Kremlin. With the further development of Russia’s political process, the "St. Petersburg faction" regrouped around Putin and became the core force to determine the future and destiny of Russia’s development.