The promised WikiLeaks kompromat (damaging material) in its Russian section is not especially impressive so far: 1. American diplomats call Putin an "alpha male." Well, that’s actually quite complimentary toward Putin, coming from American diplomats. Though it’s still unclear whether the term "Alpha Dog" can really be translated as "alpha male." Until that is clarified, I suggest we assume the diplomats are simply calling Putin "Alf."
In diplomatic correspondence, the Americanoids report that "the Russian government is closely linked to criminal groups." All you can do here is laugh. The Russian government is not linked to criminal groups. The Russian government is a criminal group. In that connection, I highly recommend this excellent Vedomosti article: The Money of Nashi. A must-read and must-see: Legally alone, these youth grifters received 470 million rubles in budget funds over the past three years.
(table from the *Vedomosti* website) How much unrecorded cash was slipped in on top of that is still unknown, but one can guess. Just to bus in their idiots from all over the country for the recent "Kremlin Russian March," they spent 14.4 million rubles. Budget money again. But the most remarkable thing is that the chief youth grifter, Vasily Yakemenko,
turned out to be not just a crook, but also a founder of a company whose other co-founders were, in the most literal sense, gangsters and murderers — members of the OCG "29 Complex." On a search for “Yakemenko Vasily Grigoryevich,” the Unified State Register of Legal Entities returns four organizations, including the Nashi movement itself. One of them came as a surprise — Akbars LLP, established in Moscow in March 1994. Its founders are listed as Adygan Salyakhov (23.36%), Vasily Yakemenko, Alexander Vlasov, Nail Nuriakhmetov, Rosil Rakhmatullin (18.69% each), and Yuri Eremenko (1.87%). In 2008, this company was removed from the register. * But the memory of it, and of all its founders except Yakemenko, survives in criminal case No. 192529, which runs to more than 200 volumes. In the indictment (Vedomosti has a copy) and in witness testimony, they appear as leaders of one of Russia’s most brutal gangs — the organized criminal community "29 Complex" from Naberezhnye Chelny, which had up to 1,000 members. * The investigation and trial took several years. On July 17, 2006, it took eight hours in the Supreme Court of Tatarstan to read out the verdict for 32 gang members — Eremenko received a life sentence, while the others got more than 400 years in prison combined for "banditry, organizing a criminal community, kidnappings, and 14 murder counts committed between 1993 and 2001."
(the track record of Yakemenko’s business partner) How lovely. And then we still act surprised that these young Kremlin crooks hire football hooligan groups to carry out attacks. Plenty of experience there. So here they are, the modern Komsomol members:
Some are already in prison. Some are not yet. Yakemenko himself says his passport details were used unlawfully. That is possible. But it is strange that he decided to report it to the police only now. Really, this isn’t exactly rocket science: - pull the incorporation documents - conduct handwriting examinations - question the other "businessmen" and so on. The truth can be established. If, of course, anyone in the Russian government is bothered by such minor details in the biography of the head of a state committee.