Putin, who "does not know" Guriev, forgot: two years ago he called him by name and patronymic and praised him for literacy

President Vladimir Putin, who on the eve of a press conference stated that he did not know anything about the economist that emigrated to France, Sergei Guriev, or he forgot something, or he was serving.

“But what, are there any reason to put him in jail? I don’t know anything about this. I recently learned such a name, and I don’t know if he has any transgressions before the law,” the head of state said, answering the question of the threats of former rector Rash in Russia. But then he added that there will be no problems with the restriction of freedom, we are talking about a free person.

Such a response of Putin immediately caused skepticism in experts. For example, the editor -in -chief of The New Times on the air of the Special Opinion program on the Radio Echo of Moscow said rather rudely: "I should assume that the President of the Russian Federation has severe sclerosis, and then, of course, the question of its legal capacity arises ..."

According to Albats, Putin cannot but know Sergey Guriev. "Moreover, in the month of October, when he was talking to him - if my memory does not change me - Arkady Dvorkovich - Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich opened his daddy, where it was written that Guriev said the wrong thing. And Guriev said that Putin should be afraid so that he would not befall the fate of Gaddafi. So, I categorically believe in this. Schools, and that Mr. Colonel is not aware that two or three years ago he came to the release and made a speech by the US President Obama? Well, that’s all, of course, because he knows him, but this is such a wonderful game, ”Albats said.

And on Wednesday, the emotional words of Evgenia Albats were also found official confirmation. Bloggers on the old version of the Prime Minister found a transcript of a meeting of colleges of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance following the results of activities in 2010. This event took place in April 2011. Putin was attended by Putin - as prime minister, Alexei Kudrin as the Minister of Finance, and Sergey Guriev with his own person, as a rector of Rash.

Guriev made a report in which he spoke of economic development and, in particular, the harmful dominance of state -owned companies in the Russian market.

Putin not only listened to the report, but also entered into a dialogue. According to the transcript, he knew very well with whom he was dealing. Quote: "What did I have so quasi-destroyed? Sergey Maratovich (he, as they told me, worked too well), he said very competently. He said that we have a corruption tax above than in other countries."

Vladimir Putin repeatedly called Guriev "Sergey Maratovich", and once - in the context of "I will completely agree here."

Recall that the emigrated economist was previously interrogated in the TFR in the framework of the second “case of Yukos”. No formal accusations have been put forward against him, but as the media indicate, Guriev was part of an expert group that concluded in December 2011 that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were convicted illegally.

Investigators by court decision seized electronic correspondence from Guriev in several years. He also complained about surveillance. At the end of May, he could not stand it - he resigned from all posts in Russia, including the post of rector of the Russian School of Economics, and left for France.