power. he may have won the day but vladimir putin never forgot about the woman who had kicked him when he was down. do you think he resolved you interfered in my elections. two can play at this game? i think that s the line of thinking that led him to the intervention. i m totally convinced russians were interfering covertly. they determined that putin personally ordered a campaign to influence the election. in part because he hold as grudge for clinton s comments in 2011. putin has denied that russia was hacking the democrats. i don t know anything about that. you know how many hackers there
to go back to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. i think down deep in putin there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union because it wasn t just the soviet union, it was the russian empire. putin returned home from his kgb posting in 1990 to a country he did not recognize. the u.s.s.r. had been transformed by mukyle gorbechev. things happened very quickly. a romance with things western.
than moscow 30 years ago. just an amazing transformation. add to the economics putin s secret sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2014 after an invasion that shocked the world. bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small. vladimir putin grabbed a piece of ukraine for russia. the west was horrified. that s the sort of thing adolf hitler did in the 1930s. we thought those days were gone. but it all looked very different through russian eyes. i have never meat a russian who accepted the notion of ukraine as a totally separate state. of course, many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion. but not russians. they see it as a revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. putin has given them their pride back. russia is once again a great power.
the document does not say how much putin has in the bank or investments. top u.s. treasury official talked to the bbc. i m not in a position to give you figures but what i can say is he supposedly draw as state salary of something like $110,000 a year. that is not an accurate statement of the man s wealth. but if putin was getting rich, he certainly wasn t the it only one in russia. in 1996 when putin had just moved to moscow and begun his climb to the top, there were no billionaires in all of russia. by 2014, russia had 111 billionaires. and while moscow has multiple bentley dealerships, the average wage in russia is less than 4$40
this is actually commanding a reality. putin s spokesman says every leader, especially the leader of a nuclear power like russia or the united states haz access to state owned planes and helicopters that are safe and have secure communications. of course he uses this plane, this residences but it s not his property. the rumors about his welt, the palaces has nothing to do with reality. it s just lies. the rumors of putin s wealth, well, some of them are staggering. some of them including myself believe he s the richest man in the world or one of the richest men min world. he was once the largest foreign investor. we talked in 2015. you really think putin is the richest man in the world? i do and i m not just saying