Up next, author of putins kleptocracy. She talks about the designs putin has for russia today. She spoke about her book at Woodrow Wilson center in washington d. C. Welcome. We are, indeed, in for a treat today, and if you havent got enough discussion on putin, well, i think were going to, hopefully, satisfy your curiosity today. It is our great pleasure to have karen here to talk about her new book, putins kleptocracy, and i should add that the books are available on sale as well. Karen is the walter e. Havenhearst director of science for postsoviet studies at Miami University in ohio. She is a former Wilson Center Public Policy scholar as well as a former guest scholar at brookings. She has taught at many universities including a long stint in the university of maryland. The author of numerous books, but i are a sneaking suspicion that this one really rises to the top of the list x she received her ph. D. From the London School of economics. Karen will be followed by professor Elizab
Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
Prince of bell air . For that he would get five day of detention. And what i found in a letter and interview that when the war was raging on and he was told russian airplanes were not great construction. You know it this isnt a great construction. It is efficient. So those planes were not great construction and not really good to protect the pilot. They were efficient in fighting the nazis. So his head was always sticking out from this cock pit so he invented a helmet and it was the soldiers hard hat and then the pilot had above it. So it protected them. My mother didnt keep the letters, but if i didnt have enough courage, was leonid a trader or not, i would never find out long after leonid was dead, his bitalion continued to wear this kind of battalion wore this helmet to the end of the car. I discovered he wasnt a trader and all of it was political and he didnt do anything wrong but wasnt a good soviet and therefore we face that. And also one of the problems i think that was importan
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