Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin responded to RosPil’s investigation into the purchase of “golden pistols” for special forces. For some reason using the NATO word “life,” so hostile to us, he announced to the world:
Then the belligerent deputy prime minister went on the offensive and also mentioned his lofty moral virtues:
And of course he lashed out at the “internet hamsters.” It’s a fashionable trend these days—to call anyone who dislikes official corruption a “hamster.”
Five hours later, he had thought it all over and came up with an even better version. It turns out HE HAD ALREADY ORDERED THIS PROCUREMENT TO BE CHECKED A WEEK EARLIER.
What a fine fellow. And at the end, he modestly complained about his hard lot in life.
It’s hard for him here. In Moscow, supposedly the heart of the motherland. In the rear. And yet enemies are everywhere, and nothing is clear. It was different when he was on the front line—in Brussels. Even if he endured terrible hardships there, it was easier. Everything was clear: ours here, theirs there, and there was the front line. Running right through a restaurant with excellent oysters. All right, let’s not pick on Rogozin. After all, he did respond, and that’s already something. Shoigu, for example, is keeping silent, even though, formally speaking, the complaints about the “golden pistols” are directed more at him than at Rogozin. Rosoboronpostavka is a federal executive body that acts as the state customer for placing orders, concluding contracts, making payments, monitoring, and recording the fulfillment of state defense contracts. The activities of Rosoboronpostavka are directed by the President of the Russian Federation. Rosoboronpostavka falls under the authority of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which coordinates and supervises its activities. http://rosoboronpostavka.ru/about/ It is Shoigu who is responsible for the schemes enabled by the head of Rosoboronpostavka, mademoiselle Sitnikova.
She is, incidentally, one of the famous “Serdyukov girls” (a reference to the circle of female associates around former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov). A trusted associate of his, who had worked with him back in the St. Petersburg tax office, as her biography shows. Criminal cases are being opened against the other girls, but this one is firmly entrenched in her post, even though RosPil was exposing hellish arms procurement fraud under her leadership as far back as three years ago. Obviously, arms procurement is not just some plot of land belonging to Puzikov’s son-in-law, or even Vasilyeva’s gold jewelry. Here we are talking about billions of dollars stolen. And people who steal billions in Russia receive immunity from criminal prosecution. So Sitnikova is doing just fine. All right, I got sidetracked. Since Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin, who values his reputation, has taken up the matter, there will probably be a result. The tender will be canceled, and criminal charges will be brought against those who drafted the technical specifications. We wait and wish D. O. Rogozin success. It won’t be easy for him—there are far too many traitors in the Russian government. As they say outright in the film "Russia with a Knife in Its Back":
