Public Safety committee  I will finish my presentation in two more minutes.

Public Safety committee  As you mentioned, the previous INTERPOL president, Meng Hongwei of China, was disappeared by China just months ago, supposedly to be charged with corruption. I believe the Xi Jinping government was widely disappointed at how few names on their global target list he had captured f

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for inviting me. I heard Bill's story, and I've heard it many times. Any time I hear it, I can't believe my ears. If I hadn't lived in Russia, I would probably doubt his words, but I know he was absolutely right. He probably said less than he could have becau

Foreign Affairs committee  As you can guess, I was quite worried about Trump's consistency in praising Putin, because that was probably the only consistent line in his entire campaign, but we know this consistency could be short-lived, and I wouldn't make any predictions about U.S. foreign policy before we

Foreign Affairs committee  I would like to submit this testimony.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, I want to defend the integrity of my game. I think calling Putin a chess player is a form of intellectual insult to the game of chess.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, no, as you can guess, it's not the first time I've had to confront the question by trying to defend vigorously the game that I've been playing for my entire life. To be serious, chess is a game of strategy, and dictators don't play a strategic game. They're always very good

Foreign Affairs committee  Putin is a very good player, but I would rather call him a poker player. In poker, you can win by playing with a very weak hand, but you can bluff; you can raise the stakes, and you should be a good reader of opponents' minds. Again, he was a good KGB agent who proved to be a ver

Foreign Affairs committee  One thing I know from reading a few history books is that every delay in responding to a dictator—an aggressive dictator—pushes the price up. When Boris Nemtsov was here—I don't know if he was in this room or somewhere else—arguing for the Magnitsky case, we lived in a differen

Foreign Affairs committee  It's not that difficult to imagine, since a KGB colonel who has a lot of experience in hybrid wars will try to make sure that NATO is nothing else but a paper title.

Foreign Affairs committee  It must cause him uncertainty, because it undermines one of the fundamental rules of a mafia state. Putin is not a democratically elected leader. He is a dictator whose rules are based very much on immunity that he provides for his enablers, for the Russian elite inside Russia.

Foreign Affairs committee  Money is always looking for safe harbour. We are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars, if not more, of this money that will definitely be looking for a place to be invested. We know that for a long time the U.K. was one of the preferred destinations. We know that there a

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, committee members, I am grateful for the opportunity to be here today and to speak about the nature, the goals, and the methods of the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin. I am not an outsider or an objective observer of these things. No one can or should be objective