St. Petersburg Connection

As a St. Petersburg-Connection (also called "St. Petersburg Putin Clan" short Piter clan or Putin clan ) ( Russian Санкт-Петербургский клан Путина abbreviated Питерский клан or Питерская команда ) is a group of men in the Russian administration and the state-oriented economy, which has dominated Russian politics since Vladimir Putin took office in 2000. It is believed that they form a political rope team .

Most of its members were quite young when Putin took office and are connected to him through the eponymous Saint Petersburg. Putin's successor as President Dmitry Medvedev is also counted among her. It is roughly divided into two groups: the first group studied in what was then Leningrad and later worked with Putin there or in Moscow. It is partly still divided into a legal and an economic group. The second group comes from Saint Petersburg and worked for the FSB under Putin ; they belong to the group of the Siloviki . The group also has a decisive influence on the state economy, in particular the leadership of Gazprom is equipped with its members.

Known members

(Selection, with most important, including former, offices and posts)

Vladimir Putin: FSB chief, Russian prime minister and president

Dmitry Medvedev: Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors, Prime Minister and President.

Alexei Miller : CEO of Gazprom

Dmitri Kosak : Head of Administration of the Federal District of Southern Russia , Vice-Prime Minister

Boris Gryzlov : Interior Minister, Chairman of the Duma and the "Putin Party" United Russia

Herman Gref : Minister of Economy, Board of Directors of Gazprom , Svyazinvest and Sberbank

Leonid Reiman : Minister for Information Technology and Communication

Yuri Shevchenko : Minister of Health

Viktor Ivanov : Head of Personnel of the Presidential Administration , Chairman of the Board of Aeroflot

Sergei Ivanov : Minister of Defense, First Deputy Prime Minister

Nikolai Patrushev : FSB chief, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko , Russian-Finnish oligarch, oil trader, major shareholder of the Gunvor company

The Arkadi brothers and Boris Rotenberg , Putin's friends from the judo club, "self-made" oligarchs

Shores Ivanovich Alfjorov : Nobel Prize Winner, Deputy of the Duma, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ilya Klebanov : Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Minister of Industry and Science, Deputy Prime Minister, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the North-West Region

Andrei Fursenko : Deputy Minister for Industry and Science, Minister for Education and Science

literature

Kevin Rosner: Gazprom and the Russian State . Global Market Briefings Publ., Sterling VA 2006 (= Russian Foreign Energy Policy), ISBN 1-905050-30-5 , p. 35. (English)
Michael Waller: Russian politics today. The return of a tradition . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2005, ISBN 0-7190-6414-7 , pp. 173-191: Groups in Russian politics . (English)
Stefan Creuzberger (Ed.): St. Petersburg - Leningrad - St. Petersburg. A city in the mirror of time . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05358-8 , pp. 1016ff.

Individual evidence

↑ Putin's St. Petersburg clan - After Putin's two years in the Kremlin, his friends and colleagues hold all key positions in Russia (Russian). In: inosmi.ru. March 26, 2003, accessed July 18, 2010 .
↑ Michail Aleksejew : Clan (Russian). In: sovsekretno . Retrieved July 18, 2010 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Piter team in power - a phenomenon or a new class? (Russian). In: Delowaja Pressa . October 11, 2001, accessed July 18, 2010 .
↑ ^a ^b Profile: Dmitry Medvedev. In: BBC World Service. BBC, January 7, 2008, accessed April 27, 2010 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Eberhard Schneider : The domestic political "system" of Putin . In: Science and Politics Foundation - German Institute for International Politics and Security (Ed.): SWP study . S 25 Berlin September 2001 ( swp-berlin.org [accessed April 27, 2010]).
↑ ^a ^b Anselm Waldermann : Russian castling - Gazprom becomes president. In: Spiegel Online . December 10, 2007, accessed April 27, 2010 .
↑ WORLD: Putin's friends benefit from the Russian building craze
^ Forbes: Arkadi Rotenberg
^ Forbes: Boris Rotenberg
↑ Pavel Voshanov: Who digs together with the president? What happened to the members of the Datchen cooperative “Osero (Lake)” when one of them moved to the Kremlin? (Russian). In: Novaja Gaseta / Compromat.ru . May 31, 2006, archived from the original on November 23, 2008 ; Retrieved August 25, 2010 .

[inosmi-1] Putin's St. Petersburg clan - After Putin's two years in the Kremlin, his friends and colleagues hold all key positions in Russia (Russian). In: inosmi.ru. March 26, 2003, accessed July 18, 2010 .

[sovsekretno-2] Michail Aleksejew : Clan (Russian). In: sovsekretno . Retrieved July 18, 2010 .

[delovaja-3] The Piter team in power - a phenomenon or a new class? (Russian). In: Delowaja Pressa . October 11, 2001, accessed July 18, 2010 .

[BBC1-4] Profile: Dmitry Medvedev. In: BBC World Service. BBC, January 7, 2008, accessed April 27, 2010 .

[SWO-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Eberhard Schneider : The domestic political "system" of Putin . In: Science and Politics Foundation - German Institute for International Politics and Security (Ed.): SWP study . S 25 Berlin September 2001 ( swp-berlin.org [accessed April 27, 2010]).

[SP-6] Anselm Waldermann : Russian castling - Gazprom becomes president. In: Spiegel Online . December 10, 2007, accessed April 27, 2010 .

[7] WORLD: Putin's friends benefit from the Russian building craze

[8] Forbes: Arkadi Rotenberg

[9] Forbes: Boris Rotenberg

[compromat-10] Pavel Voshanov: Who digs together with the president? What happened to the members of the Datchen cooperative “Osero (Lake)” when one of them moved to the Kremlin? (Russian). In: Novaja Gaseta / Compromat.ru . May 31, 2006, archived from the original on November 23, 2008 ; Retrieved August 25, 2010 .