Russia's Corrupt Leaders

Bill Browder has a new book, Red Notice, that is an interesting and revealing story about corruption of Russia at the highest levels.  It fits well with my story of the Russian oligarchs who are more mobsters than government or business leaders.  Red Notice is about making money in Russia and having it taken away, while the rest of the world looked on.  He says he was familiar with the 'prison yard rules' of Russian business - never show weakness.  He became an activist shareholder of Gazprom, the Russian oil giant, and it got him expelled and his lawyer murdered (Putin claims it was a heart attack).  Putin runs his government more like Al Capone ran Chicago than the way a world leader does.  

We might just say, "Well, it's his country and it is none of our business", but this government is run by the Federal Security Service and not by an elected government.  It would be like the CIA running the U.S. government.  Browder supports what Robert Gates brought out in Duty, that the Russians are not a democracy in any sense of the word.  Putin leads like he is still in the KGB (FSS).  Where it matters is in places like the Ukraine, where governments which are elected are trying to stop a dictator from taking over the region.  It is surrounded by Putin's grasp of Cyber and Information War.  He has laid out a plan and carries it out with the ruthless precision of a killer. See The New Cyberwar:  Technology and the Redefinition of Warfare, [  http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9843-7  ]