RFE: Teflon Putin? Over 20 Years In Power, Scandals Don't Seem To Stick To The Russian President
Vladimir Putin was not well known when President Boris Yeltsin picked him as prime minister on August 9, 1999, a key point in his meteoric rise to power. But years earlier, back in his hometown of St. Petersburg, he attracted the attention of local lawmakers who uncovered what they alleged was a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme and accused Putin, a deputy mayor, of masterminding it.
This would be the first of a series of scandals and accusations against Putin, many of them laid out in reports alleging involvement or complicity in misdeeds ranging from plagiarism and poisonings to corruption, embezzlement, lethal incompetence, and more.
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WNU Editor: I was surprised when President Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin as his Prime Minister on August 9, 1999. The impression that I had at the time was that Yeltsin wanted to appoint someone outside of his circle to give the finger to those around him that he trusted but felt had ultimately betrayed him. I was not surprised that when Yeltsin retired that Putin stood up and won the Russian Presidency. Putin had the backing of the state apparatus, the Church, and the Russian business elite, while his opponents were disorganized with the Communist Party being the dominantopposition group.
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