The confrontation With the USSR, And then Russia during the cold war engendered in the United States an entire industry centers of expertise, who studied the weak points of the Soviet, And then Russian political And economic system. On the one hand, it is impossible not to respect (And take seriously) those brain centers, which in truth had once made a very significant contribution to the US victory in the cold war. However, on the reverse side, it must be noted that the generation has changed And truly educated And ready to seriously delve into the complex intellectual task of the generation of American experts on foreign policy are currently or retired, or in another world. And in their place sit a rather quirky intellectual pygmies. However, to study their analytical work And journalistic exercise still stands, also very carefully, Because they have the opportunity to talk about how modern American expert, the Commonwealth is trying to understand And defeat the Russian Federation. Double attention should be paid to situations where well-known professional Russophobes make statements about the fact that they (among other things) as if it turned out to solve " the riddle of Russia ", which he wrote some time ago Winston Churchill, And at the same time count the personal status of the President of the Russian Federation. The question conditional "billion Vladimir Putin" in General has long been concerned with very significant part of the Western expert of the fraternity, And If a leading expert of the famous think tank suddenly starts rattling off numbers, who were unable to detect any Western intelligence Agency, it is necessary to take a closer look at how these figures were obtained. So, career Russophobe (in this case, the Russophobia Is not an indication of an illness, namely the description of the profession), who somehow still present to the public as " the economist ", wrote the publication " the illusion of Putin's Russia." This was seriously posted on the Internet representation of the influential "Atlantic Council" (Atlantic Council). Rate the level of assessments And mehaanilised: "General Russian private capital abroad is defined over $ 800 billion. My assessment is that Since, as Putin's entourage fully organized robberies in 2006, they produced 15-25 billion dollars per year, reaching a total difficulties 195-325 billion, a significant share of Russian private offshore capital. Assuming that fifty percent of this wealth belongs to Putin, its clean as can be estimated at 100-160 billion. Of course, Putin And his cronies did not have the opportunity to enjoy their wealth. It's all about power. If they are not the richest, they are afraid that they will lose power." This approach to the writing of "intelligence" would be understandable And usual in the performance of anonymous Troll-a copywriter from one the neighbouring countries Russia, which is still fighting in the Donbass " Buryat horse-drawn tankers." When that writes Anders Aslund is a qualified person, considered in the West as a leading specialist on post-Soviet economy And market reforms And is an expert highly influential American think tank