Pyakin: Death of Sergei Ivanov's son KOB
[From the November 9, 2014, issue of V-O]
Host: The death of Sergei Ivanov's son. What is this? A message to the Russian "elites" or a blow to the Russian banking system? Is this connected to the American warning to the Russian "elites" about the removal of our Sovereign Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin? So, are they implying that the warning is no joke, and that something similar awaits others?
Valery Viktorovich: A very complex question. It's difficult to discuss right now for one simple reason: Sergei Borisovich and I are not in the same company where we are having a confidential conversation, even if it is in the presence of [several people]. This will, after all, be a public comment. Therefore, not everything can be said.
What can be said? This is a warning. And a very serious warning to the entire Russian "elite." The "elite" must determine its attitude toward Russian statehood. Everyone who tries to negotiate with the United States, the Global Predictor—Milosevic, Gaddafi, Hussein—all ends up the same way. Everyone. It's their style.
So, everyone needs to take this event seriously and understand one small thing: if this person had been vacationing in Sochi or Crimea, [then] this might not have happened.
In 1986, a film about the fate of Dean Reed was broadcast on several television channels. He was a public figure. In 1986, he drowned while swimming in a lake near Berlin. As it later turned out, it was a secret service operation to eliminate Dean Reed. But that came out later.
That's probably all that can be said publicly now.
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