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Interview with former St. Petersburg businessman Maxim Freezone «Radio Liberty» in which he accused Vladimir Putin of involvement in corruption schemes in the 1990-ies in St. Petersburg, removed from the site of the radio station. On the eve of publication, the Kremlin regarded it as an information attack.

«The publication was deleted at the request of the interviewee Radio Liberty. Sorry about that», — stated in the message radio stations are on the page where it was placed in an interview. Deleted text is available in the cache of Google.

Freidson said that in the 1990s he met several times with Putin in connection with the beginning of a special program the establishment of a police weapon. He also accused Putin of taking a bribe. As claimed Freidson, it was about $10 thousand, and the money received «assistant Vladimir Vladimirovich Alex Miller» (we are talking about Alexei Miller, the current head of «Gazprom»). According to Freidson, Putin supposedly «just wrote the amount in a conversation». The businessman noted that «personally money Putin did not give».

Freidson also cited the words of his late partner Dmitry Skigin, who claimed that Putin was 4% in the joint company of Freezone and Skigin SOVEX (transport-filling complex of the St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport).

Text conversations with Prazolam was published on 23 may. A day earlier the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Western media begin an information attack on Putin.

Peskov said that the Kremlin has received two request for information from a respected London newspaper,» from the American edition, which was not called. According to him, in both queries partially «brand match» the wording of the questions. These appeals, said a spokesman, are quite eloquent proof of how many continues to be uncomfortable Putin.

Organizers of information attacks on the country’s leadership and Russia did not shun any mud, he told journalists. «This coordinated information exercise», he said he requests.

As told Sands, one of the media sent a set of 21 question in prosecutorial style of questioning on direct and indirect communication activities of Mr Timchenko and Putin. In particular, put Putin directly or indirectly in Gunvor, has approved a loan to the 20th trust, and discussed whether Putin and Timchenko business in the 90s, did Putin from Timchenko money that could help him to build a cottage in the cooperative «Lake», and also a number of other issues concerning the activity of the company «PETROMED» (helped Putin to protect her and the 20th trust from Petersburg criminal gangs).

The Kremlin gave a negative answer to all questions, except one, Peskov said: «Indeed, in 1996 Sobchak was taken to a separate Charter flight to Paris, but it was not a plane Timchenko, and Timchenko helped to Charter the intensive care aircraft.»

About the beginning of the information of the attack on the Russian leadership before the release of the interview Freidson stated also the head of President Putin’s administration Sergei Ivanov. «I am convinced that all defamatory statements in our address have the same goal: to convince the Russians that the Russian ruling circles wrong. However, I am quite sure that this plan wouldn’t work,» he said in an interview with TV channel Russia Today.

Foreign media, said Ivanov, often written about alleged corruption around the President of the Russian Federation. «The bottom line is that if there are any charges to me,let them be voiced: what exactly is my corruption,where are my huge profits,where’s my home in the US or UK? After all, such things are easy to prove,» said Ivanov.