Fiona Hill, one of the leading experts in Russia: “During an official lunch, he didn’t touch his cup.” The security mania “after his opponents were poisoned”
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WASHINGTON “Putin is not the superman we imagine,” says Fiona Hill’s book There is Nothing for You Here, which has been at the center of the political debate in the United States for several weeks. Hill, 56, is one of the leading experts in Putin’s Russia. She was an adviser in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations before serving on the National Security Council with Donald Trump from 20172019. Her position: director for European and Russian affairs.
He is also known to the general public for his testimony in Congress during the November 2019 impeachment trial against Trump. Joe Biden said he enjoyed reading his work on the Russian leader, Mr. Putin, an “agent in the Kremlin (2015). In her latest volume, Fiona Hill also describes unpublished details about the personality of the Moscow “Tsar”. He spoke about it in a few television interviews, such as the “Late Night Show” hosted by Stephen Colbert. Here is his account: “I have had the opportunity to observe Putin closely on several occasions. For example, I remember sitting not far from him at an official luncheon. I noticed that he hadn’t been drinking. He never touched his cup. I don’t know if it contained water or tea.”
According to the former councilor, Putin would be obsessed with his security, perhaps because, he added, “some of his opponents have been poisoned by dissolving the polonium in their tea.” However, the Russian leader is not “that superman that propaganda wants us to believe”. ‘On this occasion, too, I noticed that he had in front of him a sheet of paper with notes written in unusually large letters; Putin wears contact lenses, but he doesn’t want this to be known, probably because he fears it will make public opinion feel weak ». The 69yearold former KGB agent “lives in a bubble” surrounded by a small group of collaborators “who are not oligarchs.” «These are people concludes Fiona Hill who have no investments, have no interests outside of Russia. They are deeply rooted in their country and all very attached to Putin. That is why it is difficult to imagine changes in power in Moscow ».
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