Putin is loyal even to “dangerous” oligarchs
The West is introducing sanctions against all Russian oligarchs in order to turn big business against the state.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s not easy for them. There are different people there, you see. We know this well, the country knows it. Firstly, everyone was subject to sanctions: Western, pro-Western or non-Western - all with the same brush. For what? In order to restore business against the state,” Putin said.
He himself divides big businessmen into patriots and “dangerous” ones - those who connect their interests not with Russia.
“The interests of the country are that they work efficiently, pay taxes regularly, but it is not at all necessary for everyone to have a ship arrested abroad, or some kind of castle on the Mediterranean Sea or in London.
You see, the point is this: if a person lives here and connects his life, the lives of his children, his family with this country, that’s one thing. And if a person does not connect his life with this country, but simply takes money from here, and that’s all there, then he values not the country in which he lives and where he earns money, but values good relations where he has property and money in his accounts. And such people pose a danger to us. But we are loyal to everyone,” Putin said.
At the same time, he is confident that the overwhelming number of Russian businessmen are patriots.
“Each person is in his own individual situation, but everyone strives not just to stay to live and work in Russia, but to work for the benefit of our country, preserving labor collectives, their enterprises, developing the economy and so on,” Putin said .
Putin is loyal even to "dangerous" oligarchs.