ksenia sobchak says there is a lot of economic frustration across this country. these people are quite ready to understand there is a connection between c unfair elections to my between, between crimea problems, other things. and their livelihoods. doug: a child of kremlin elite, sometimes called russia s paris hilton. she once posed on the cover of playboy. her late father was president let me put in his mentor and gave him his first break in politics. but when the putin said he would seek a third term in politics in 2011, she said enough was enough, and join the massive street protests. sobchak call the annexation of crimea was illegal and believes russia should join the e.u. sobchak called putin out on this thinking alexey navalny should be allowed to run. in the meantime, she plans to
russian elites the arab spring confirms such factional divisions in the guys of democracy promotion only lead to internal disorder, societal conflict, and the loss of the sovereign integrity of the state. and the fact that hillary clinton encouraged russian democracy protesters at this sensitive moment branded her forever an arch enemy in the eyes of the kremlin elite. a year later, in 2013, the chief of staff of the russian armed forces, a general, wrote an article suggesting that russia s key strategic challenge was responding to the underlying dynamics of the arab spring and north africa s clofr color revolutions. he advocated that russia better understand and develop the non-military asymmetrical methods, including special operations, information warfare, and the use of internal opposition so as to cripple an enemy s society. since then, moscow has made
in russia. it pours into banks, offshore shell companies. most of the kremlin elite keep their accounts outside of russia. they understand the russian economy is so volatile it could go up at any moment. this is where the pressure lies. the european union made it clear they are more reluctant to impose sanctions on russia, much less anything approaching sectoral sanctions. we haven t done that, by the way. the last suite of sanctions were powerful but fell short of sectoral sanctions. the information we have and the information we had already disclosed, are remember. when we first issued sanctions against russia the important thing was disclosure that vladimir putin himself, the president of the russian federation has assets in a swiss commodities trader called gunvore. there was a disclosure by a
divisions in the guise of democracy promotion only lead to internal disorder, societal conflict and the loss of the southern integrity of the state. the fact that hillary clinton encouraged russian democracy protesters at this sensitive moment branded her forever an arch enemy in the eyes of the kremlin elite. a year later in 2013, the chief of staff of the russian armed forces wrote an article suggesting that russia s key strategic challenge was responding to the understood lying dynamics of the arab springs. he advocated that russia better understanded and developed the non-military asymmetrical methods and use of internal opposition so as to cripple an enemy society. moscow has made information and