Alexander Nevzorov: On Russian oligarchs in Britain

On Russian oligarchs in Britain

Every situation eventually comes down to somebody’s interests, and here we talk about serious, financial interests because all Russian oligarchs have very strong ties with the English oligarchy. So when the wave of public indignation reaches the border of these interests, it’ll subside. It’s obvious that Russian billionaires who fight in courts and maul each other for the amusement of the London public will not be an information toy for long. People are the same everywhere. Bandar-logs exist not only in Russia. They’d bite for a while, but eventually, lose interest and rush towards other bananas.

Despite their very English appearance, English origin, all these English adventures of Russian oligarchs appear to be steered from Kremlin among other things. At the end of the day, English people shouldn’t really care about this. Russia needs these rich Russians more than England anyway. And Russia sometimes likes to give a jolly good thrashing from time to time, especially to those who are close to the throne.

All money in the world is closely related.

All money in the world is closely related. Every bill is a sister or a brother of another bill. It’s a united, solid brotherhood of bills, and it’s pointless to meddle in its business with your own rules, indignation, revulsion or love. These bills will decide everything without our interference.

There are information goods that count, the information that’s worth something. But this information tends to go bad, turn sour and sink into oblivion. Mass media hang on to this story about Russian oligarchs because they want to trade in something too. They cannot go on and on about warts on the Queen’s nose or the design of her coat. They are in need of information goods, information that’s worth something. [Sergey] Skripal was a very good piece of information goods. But when something ceases to be a good piece of information goods, the tension around it gradually decreases and fades away while the public switches its attention to something else, even if it’s less exciting and impressive. Unfortunately, all these idiots need to be entertained with something new and fresh all the time. It’s true for all places, be it England, Russia, Netherlands or Africa. These are objective laws of mass media and life in general.