Putin sets record for number of relatives placed in high-ranking positions in the public sector
For comparison, Boris Yeltsin, whose surname has long been associated with nepotism in power, placed only five of his relatives in the public sector.
You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of family members employed in government Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov и Chernenko.
In its new study, the publication "Proekt" emphasizes that Putin has handed out the most senior positions to his cousins. Evgenia Putin (Mikhail Putin, Anna и Sergey Tsivilev, who received positions in Gazprom and the government).
Putin's family members also control the RusHydro company, construction projects in Sevastopol, and the propaganda non-profit organization Dialogue.
The families of Putin's former lovers also received state-related income (Lyudmila Putina, Svetlana Krivonogikh и Alisa Kharcheva).