"In his two decades in power, President Vladimir Putin has prevented Russia’s economy from going under and kept most of the ruling elite in place. The secret behind Putin’s remarkable course of stability is a public-private partnership of sorts...
a business arrangement, in which the public side is represented by Putin and the private side by his friends and other individuals who were able to make special deals within his system." write @russiafiles + Boris Grozovsky
http://j.mp/2p87Iv7