by Leonid Voronin via StalkerZone (Excerpt)
There are people who don’t know how much Putin has done for Russia. After 17 years:
- Putin increased Russia’s budget 22-fold, military spending 30-fold, GDP 12-fold (Russia jumped from 36th place in the world in terms of GDP to 6th place);
- Increased gold and foreign exchange reserves 48-fold!
- Returned 256 mineral deposits to the Russian jurisdiction (it is left to return 3!);
- Disrupted the most “liberal” production-sharing agreement in history – the PSA (see below);
- Nationalised 65% of the oil industry and 95% of the gas and many other industries;
- Raised industry and agriculture (Russia has been ranked 2nd-3rd in the world in terms of grain exports for 5 years in a row, overtaking the US, which is now in 4th place);
- Increased average salaries in the public sector 18.5-fold in 12 years, and average pensions 14-fold.
- Reduced the extinction of the Russian population from 1.5 million people a year in 1999 to 21,000 in 2011, i.e. a reversal 71.5-fold.
In addition, Putin:
- Canceled the Khasavyurt Accord – defending the integrity of Russia;
- Made known the NGO-5th column and banned deputies from having accounts abroad;
- Defended Syria;
- Stopped the war in Chechnya.
Putin’s cancellation of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) is a great achievement. The PSA was an agreement under which America plundered Russia since the 90s and in return Yeltsin got loans. Putin fought for its abolition for almost 4 years with the help of numerous successive amendments. So the abolition of the PSA caused incredible hatred in America for Putin, as he took away from them the unhindered plunder of Russia.
The Constitution of 1993 weakened Russia so much that it was difficult in the early 2000s to resist America without consequences, so Putin had to maneuver about how to solve Russia’s problems and at the same time not expose the country to being torn apart, like Libya and Syria. Gaddafi paid with his life for the idea of changing the settlement currency from the Dollar to Euro and Gold. Now Libya is in ruins…while Russia is thriving.
