Wikileaks Russia
The "mafia state" of Vladimir Putin
The U.S. spends as Moscow's ally, but published by Wikileaks dispatches paint a different picture. "Brutal and corrupt" is Russia, the Kremlin appears to be the center of the swamp of corruption. Premier Putin should have known of a spectacular murder.
A harmonious partnership with Russia is one of the foreign policy goals of President Barack Obama. On the surface, saw the recent efforts also quite promising. What do American diplomats actually from the Russian government to show secret message dispatches, published by the unveiling platform Wikileaks. Their content is for the Russians not flattering.
a Mafia-like government in whose management they could put little hope - which is summarized the verdict of the American ambassador in Moscow over the alleged partners in Russia. Moscow is in despatches from the U.S. Embassy, which quoted from several sources, as a city in the hands of the "kleptocracy" (a rule by thieves) described.
The police, security forces and the authorities allegedly pocketed bribes to be gaining momentum served would - in some cases up to the Kremlin. The assessment comes from a time when even the now ousted and controversial mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, the city ruled
The Kremlin is in the U.S. dispatches charaktisiert as "the center of a constellation of official and quasi official trickery," reports the New York Times. Russia was "highly centralized, sometimes brutally and irrevocably cynical and corrupt."
criminals were in Russia de facto under the protection of the police, intelligence agencies and the prosecutor, the London Guardian quoted from the Wikileaks documents.
From a dispatch, it is clear according to the British newspaper that is in view of the English public prosecutor Jose Gonzalez worked in Russia, "quasi" handle a "mafia state", the politicians' hand in hand "with organized crime. The document stipulates access
Russian authorities back to the Mafia to carry out certain actions that Russia "does not correctly as a government" could perform. Russian spies are committed, therefore, the Mafia, for example, to supply weapons to Kurdish fighters to destabilize Turkey.
the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a telegram to Moscow, U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle has held up signs that he is often angry at his work load and leave the daily operations his deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov. Putin is in the opinion of a well-informed source, whose name in the Wikileaks document is anonymous, "concentration weak" and "disinterested." Even the prime minister often work from home. In other dispatches Putin and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the cartoon characters Batman and Robin were compared.
more likely to annoy Putin but the dispatches about his involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The poison murder of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko is the view of U.S. diplomats have been organized only with the knowledge of then-Kremlin bosses.
According to a further telegram from the Guardian quoted, did Putin also plans to murder the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 in London from poisoning.
According to a report in the Guardian said a senior U.S. diplomat shortly after Litvinenko's poisoning with the radioactive substance polonium 210, Putin must have been aware of the plans. Who Putin's "attention to detail" know, the it is clear that such an operation in London was never able to run past him.
protestations of innocence from the Kremlin
The ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko was living in London. In November 2006 he met with Andrei Lugovoi, the former intelligence official and businessman Dmitry Kovtun at a London hotel. There he is to the radiation poison polonium-210 administered in tea have been. He died shortly after. On his deathbed he had said the former intelligence chief, Putin had poisoned him. Russia denied ever having been involved in the crime.
The paper also quotes from a few documents of the U.S. Consulate in Hamburg, according to which Russia is said to have blocked the investigation after the murder. Kovtun had before his meeting with Litvinenko made an intermediate stop in Hamburg, where traces of polonium 210 were also found. The Hamburg prosecutor had closed the investigation against the businessman in November 2009 for lack of evidence.
reports from the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok set according to a report by Spiegel Online suggests that the mafia-like structures deep in Russia's provinces rich and leave the port city on the Pacific seem to be a haven for crooks. "The fishery is regarded as the most criminal industry in the Russian Far East," it said in a dispatch from Vladivostok.
devastating is therefore also a dossier of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow over the Russian republic of Chechnya: The style of the local president Ramzan Kadyrov is based on the "Organization of corruption." Kadyrov care for the "elimination of potential rivals and is so" clearly the strongest piece in the Caucasus "has become. Kadyrov also enjoy the support of the Kremlin.
"Corruption is the system"
The Russian press responded to the revelations very cautious, especially the pro-government newspapers such as Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda Rossiskaja.
different course with the anti-government newspapers and the opposition: "Russia - a corrupt mafia state that is nothing new," says opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the government-critical Internet newspaper Gazeta.ru: "Corruption is no longer a 'problem' more - it is the system that underpins the whole regime of Putin's thugs. "
General remains the newspaper Kommersant, in its assessment of the first dispatches: "The American authorities still a deep mistrust of the Russian Government." The business daily Vedomosti
spreads on their Website assessing the Russian government has made in detail, but has been largely a review. The more revealing of this are the comments of the users. Under the headline "Russia, a virtual mafia state" Vanyusha writes: "Well, we would have guessed even without Wikileaks." User Ragnar Danneskjold points to the economic interests of Western states: ". The Western companies have understood the local rules of the game very quickly and adopted, if Russia is a mafia state, then American companies are also players in this game."
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