Parallel Reality“Putin’s Palace” and the Limits of the Matrix Full text You absolutely have to read this. And listen to the wiretaps too: Nikolai Shamalov, member of the Ozero cooperative, : Listen, Oleg Sergeyevich, and the work for installation, delivery, and so on—how are we supposed to pay for that, officially as well? Kuznetsov: No, it can be handed over… Cirillo: **It can be in a suitcase… Especially since I pay customs in cash, I pay everything in cash, cash is what I really need… Shamalov: If that’s the case and you confirm these expenses, then that’s how we’ll pay you! Why are you hemming and hawing again?! Dmitry Gorelov, retired KGB colonel, shareholder in Bank Rossiya (9.886%): What kind of sums are we talking about? Kuznetsov: He needs cash in Moscow, 14 million (euros), and can you get more cash in Moscow? Cirillo: **I can. Shamalov: Then what are we even talking about? (laughs) FSO (Federal Protective Service) Colonel Kuznetsov is discussing with Putin’s cronies Shamalov and Gorelov how they carry money around in suitcases for the construction of Putin’s dacha in Gelendzhik. Obviously, for this whole thug clique, losing power means a guaranteed ticket to Krasnokamensk (a remote prison colony town in Siberia). That’s why it’s “we shall die outside Moscow.”