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so my name is Luke Harding I'm a
journalist and a writer and my new book
is called collusion and it's about
Donald Trump and Russia Putin and money
there are two taboo topic inside Russia
I mean I write stories about this in
2007 based on sources inside this
presidential administration who were
saying quietly that he was worth about
40 billion dollars that was a decade ago
the thing is you know Russia's a
kleptocracy it's also the world's
biggest oil producer and the people at
the top of the Russian state are all
kind of multi billionaires and Putin is
that at the head of this pyramid
although officially his salary is a
hundred thousand dollars a year
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now everyone in the Russian elite knows
he's the richest guy in town by a long
way but the beauty of the system is that
formerly nothing belongs to him and
everything is held by proxy is some of
whom are now under US sanctions it's a
kind of clever system but of course he's
enormously rich and for Putin the thing
about money is it's kind of liquid power
and power ultimately is what interests
you
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