Meet Russia's New Prime Minister, An 'Enforcer Who Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried'

[rpannier]

Russian President Vladimir Putin's new prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, has a reputation for getting things done.

During his near-decade long tenure at the helm of Russia's tax service -- whose army of roughly 150,000 employees oversees tax compliance and collections -- Mishustin tripled the amount of money his agency delivers to the budget.

Coming during a period of slow economic growth amid sanctions and falling oil prices, those results earned him accolades from the government and made him a logical choice to replace Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who announced on January 15 that his government would resign.

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"All of what we have seen [on January 15] suggests that what the Kremlin is most worried about is not the relationship with the population. It is getting the relationship with the elite right and keeping the elite in line and under control," said Sam Greene, director of the Russia Institute at King's College London.

https://www.rferl.org/a/meet-russia-s-new-prime-minister-an-enforcer-who-knows-where-the-bodies-are-buried-/30381627.html

[Iliyah]

1. And he will be invited to the WH with no cameras nor media . . .

with instructions. . .

[dewsgirl]

2. "Knows where the bodies are buried." Quite literally in some cases, I imagine.

[brush]

3. So Lavrov is out

[Leghorn21]

5. Naw, that sob is still foreign minister, brush

I really do not like the man, r e a l l y

[brush]

6. yeah, him and Kislyak totally over-matched trump in that wh meeting

[Leghorn21]

7. Will we ever get over that May '17 obscenity, brush??

YEAH I DON’T THINK SO

[VMA131Marine]

4. The IRS has half as many employees

as the Russian tax collection agency, for a population that is twice as large.