Honestly, I thought yesterday’s story about Sechin’s 25-year-old son being awarded for “many years of service” would go in the direction of, “well, the subordinates overdid it, they wanted to do something nice, we didn’t notice, and now we’ll quietly bury the issue.”
As you can see, no. Everything is apparently fine; no one is even thinking of being embarrassed.
This is a matter of historic significance; I am grateful to the president.
In that sense, the interview with the younger Murov—the son of General Murov, head of the FSO (Federal Protective Service)—who was appointed to lead FGC, one of the country’s key infrastructure companies, is revealing. In it, he says quite bluntly: “I built my career thanks to my own connections, but it would be ridiculous to say that parents don’t help their children.”
I was watching this today, and a thought occurred to me—perhaps not an original one at all: this Kremlin riffraff is literally planning to create a neo-feudal system.
That is, every key enterprise in the country will either belong directly to their children or belong to them de facto while being called “state-owned.”
Like chaebols in South Korea—except chaebols were built from scratch, whereas here these will be chunks of seized state property.
That would guarantee a system in which all of Russia’s power and money belong to five to seven families.
Don’t laugh—I’m not exaggerating. This is really how it is. The biggest banks—VEB, Rosselkhozbank, VTB—are in the hands of the children of Patrushev, Fradkov, and Ivanov. Oil and gas—Sechin’s children. Electric power—Murov’s. Yakunin—Russian Railways. Construction and infrastructure—the children of Timchenko and Rotenberg. The media—the Kovalchuks.
What is left for them? Just to pick up Sberbank, metallurgy (Usmanov will sign everything over to whoever he’s told to), and telecommunications. Then the set will be complete.
When the time comes for Papa Sechin to retire, they’ll tell us on television: if not young Sechin, then who? Who else can guarantee stability and continuity? Who else has a medal for many years of service?
This is a real plan. That is exactly how it will happen. They’ll design coats of arms, get special license plates for their cars, and put on velvet doublets for family portraits.
They’ll even hang those portraits in the schools where our children study—in a gallery of the “best people in the country.”
We need to understand clearly that this is exactly what will happen if we do not stop them.