According to the president, he had to do it.
President Vladimir Putin said that in the 90s he worked as a private carrier.
He said this in the film “New History”, the trailer of which was published on a Russian TV channel.
“Sometimes I had to earn extra money and transportations. It's unpleasant to talk about it, but, unfortunately, that was also the case,” the head of the Kremlin said. , the press secretary of Putin's campaign headquarters, Andrei Kondrashov, the president spoke only of his readiness to work as a taxi driver in the 1990s. Like, he got to the point when the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, lost the gubernatorial elections. Then the current president of the Russian Federation was the head of his campaign headquarters.
“I even thought what could I do in a taxi? I’m not joking, where to go. Two small children. Therefore, when I was offered to move to Moscow and do legal affairs in the administration of the president’s affairs, I agreed and came,” Putin said at the time.
In New History, he also spoke about at least one CIA officer among the advisers who served in the government in the 1990s. “Among these advisers was not one, probably, but one was definitely a cadre of the US Central Intelligence Agency, who had no right to engage in commercial activities under the laws of his country. In the end, the case turned into lawsuits. that he was a cadre of the CIA, “Vladimir Putin said.
As a reminder, in his fourth year at university, Putin was recruited into the KGB as a” freelance worker ” officially, where he worked until 1990. And while working in the secret service he even received the agent name “Mil”.
