Stanislav Belkovsky is one of the most outspoken and controversial political experts in modern Russia. He is the author of 12 books, including Vladimir Putin’s Business (2006), where he estimated Putin’s fortune to be $40 billion at the time of publication. In 2004, he was a political advisor to the Ukrainian opposition, and he actively took part in the Orange Revolution. In the Orange Revolution’s aftermath, Belkovsky, who is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian, founded the Institute of National Strategy of Ukraine. In 2013, he predicted that Viktor Yanukovych would flee Ukraine and that victory for the Maidan was …read more
Source: The American Interest
