“In 1999, Russia, in fact, was ruled by a group of oligarchs

🇷🇺Russia is not Enemy
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Mar 27
☝️ “In 1999, Russia, in fact, was ruled by a group of oligarchs. Some of them, when I was the chairman of the government and when Yeltsin announced that I would run for president, came to my office in the White House, sat down across from me, and said, "Well, you do understand that you will never be president here, right?" I replied, "We'll see."”- President Putin