Rossijskaya Gazeta from March 28,2000. “We have elected V.V.Putin as new President of Russia. Live up to our expectations, Mr. President!”
Olga of “Siberian Matrëshka” posted at her Telegram channel:
25 years ago
We elected a new president.
V. V. Putin.25 years ago, we were very lucky.
And she invites to read her historiographic retrospective article about what President Putin achieved for Russia in this short time span. An article which we highly recommend and are re-blogging below.
What did Putin do for Russia
Olga
May 26, 2022
There are people in Russia who don’t remember how much Putin has done for Russia:
• Over 17 years, Putin increased Russia’s budget 22 times, military spending – 30 times, GDP – 12 times (Russia jumped from 36th place in the world in terms of GDP to 6th place),
• increased gold and foreign exchange reserves by 48 times!
• returned 256 mineral deposits to Russian jurisdiction (3 left to return!).
• broke the most enslaving “liberal” in the history of production sharing agreements – PSAs (explanation below)
• nationalised 65% of the oil industry and 95% of the gas industry and many other industries.
• raised the industry and agriculture (for 5 consecutive years Russia has been ranked 2-3 in the world in terms of grain exports, overtaking the United States, which is now in 4th place).
• Well, it’s quite a trifle: Putin (it was he) reduced the extinction of the Russian population from 1.5 million people a year in 1999 to 21,000 in 2011, i.е. 71.5 times.
• In addition, Putin cancelled the Khasavyurt agreement – thus defended the integrity of Russia, gave publicity to NGOs – the 5th column and forbade deputies to have accounts abroad, defended Syria, stopped the war in Chechnya.
The abolition of the PSA by Putin is a great achievement! The PSA is an agreement under which America has been robbing Russia since the 90s and in return Yeltsin was given loans.
Putin fought for its abolition for almost 4 years with the help of numerous successive amendments. So the abolition of the PSA caused America’s incredible hatred of Putin, as he took away from them the unhindered robbery of Russia. Therefore, there is hatred for Putin, but, unfortunately, not everyone knows about it.
Why can’t Putin change everything at once? Why does he make forced stops? Why does he sometimes have to go to temporary agreements?
Yes, because the gentlemen “democrats” in the 90s drowned the country, sold it and gave the bastards the opportunity to live off Russian natural resources, adopted a thousand treacherous laws, including the Constitution of 1993, and weakened the country so much that it was difficult for Russia in the early 2000s to resist America without consequences, which is why Putin is fighting them gradually.
That is why Putin had to manoeuvre and do everything gradually, not in a single moment, but in one direction, and now he is also thinking about how to solve the problems of Russia and at the same time not expose it to being torn to pieces like Libya and Syria. America has long been tired of Putin, who takes away from them with enviable constancy, now their influence, now site after site that they robbed in Russia, then he proposes to replace the dollar with another accounting currency…
And it’s all dangerous…
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