What do you think the reaction of the country’s law enforcement system will be if you…

What do you think the reaction of the country’s law enforcement system will be if you publicly say the following: “Russia, in which we so sincerely believed, found itself in the clutches of some assholes… whose ideology is to earn money, and whose goal is to maintain power?” If you wish (and it will arise from the center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB Investigative Directorate and the Investigative Committee), you will have to answer for these words under 3-4 articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and the total criminal term for the totality of acts can reach 6-10 years in custody. But this is only if your name is not Roman Trotsenko. Well, if you are Trotsenko, not an oppositionist, but a proven shadow cog of the “Russian system”, who has amassed billions of dollars for himself on this system, you will be greeted exactly one month after the above statement, namely – February 15, 2023 – by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin by his Decree will award the Order of Friendship “for labor success and many years of conscientious work.” IN telephone conversation with businessman Nikolai Matushevsky, the order bearer Trotsenko formulated the recipe for his “labor success” extremely simply: “A man lives where he earns money. It’s impossible in Russia now. And you will live in Bali and ride around the world! This is happiness. Because 2023 is the last year!” Despite the fact that Trotsenko hastened to call the outgoing year his last year of “many years of conscientious work” in Russia, the year itself turned out to be extremely successful for him. Having secured the support of the former head of the Rosneft security service, and now the assistant secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nail Mukhitov, and continuing to trump his closeness to Igor Sechin during negotiations, the oligarch realized all his New Year’s wishes: he bought himself the Grosseto airport in Italy and withdrew a billion from Russia dollars for the construction of an airport in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah (UAE), which is going to legalize gambling and build a casino hotel – Arabian Las Vegas, in which Roman Trotsenko will be able to combine his two favorite things – poker and business at the expense of Russian taxpayers. The fact is that Trotsenko is going to finance the new airport in the Emirates using money from the state budget, which was initially allocated for the airports of Novosibirsk and Irkutsk. Who would have thought that for the 38th-ranked Russian oligarch on the Forbes list, recording a telephone conversation with a friend would unexpectedly become a financial springboard? So there is hope that in 2024 Trotsenko will continue to achieve new “labor successes” in Russia, where money is pouring on his head despite the fact that soon “people in Moscow will start killing each other on the streets.” Before the New Year, Trotsenko entered the cash game by selling 69% of the shares of the holding group “AEON Infrastructure Corporation” in order to avoid sanctions and “engage in charity.” So he will outlive everyone of the old “assholes in power.”