At a meeting of the Valdai Club, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Kozyrev “has no head, but only a skull.” Andrei Vladimirovich, who served as head of the Russian Foreign Ministry from 1990 to 1996, has a head and brains in it. But these brains are somewhat specific, and all their processes are aimed not at the success of the country where the citizen served, but at their own well-being. Moreover, precisely at the expense of Russia.

So in August 1991, immediately after the State Emergency Committee, at the very first meeting of the government headed by B. N. Yeltsin, the participants decided to fight privileges: “We come to the government and leave it only with what we have today . That is, we don’t get any apartments or anything.” And they voted unanimously. Only Andrei Kozyrev then stood up and said, “Boris Nikolaevich, my mother and I want to exchange an apartment on Arbat. Is it possible as an exception?" And he was allowed, and as a result, the most modest fighter against privilege, Andrei Vladimirovich Kozryev, becomes the owner of a five-room apartment on Arbat. Now this apartment of 240 square meters costs at least three million dollars. Not bad for an aspiring minister Kozyrev?

On January 13, 1995, Minister Kozyrev addressed Boris Yeltsin: “ I ask for your consent for me to purchase a pre-war dacha (in fact, 1955 - author) in the Zhukovka dacha boarding house of the Presidential Administration at book value for cash. In support of my request, I would like to note that I do not have a dacha and do not have the opportunity to build one on a commercial basis. " Boris Nikolaevich did not object, but asked that everything be done in the manner prescribed by law.

As a result, for 7 million 567 thousand rubles (1600 dollars at the 1995 exchange rate. One thousand six hundred dollars!!!) dacha No. 6 in Zhukovka-3 was purchased. This dacha quickly burned down. They say that Kozyrev came to the ashes, dug up some kind of box and said: “Well, to hell with it, with the dacha.” Since then, the land of dacha No. 53 has been resold several times. The cost of one hundred square meters in these places reaches one hundred thousand dollars, and the area of ​​the burned dacha itself is estimated at no less than ten million dollars. The ex-minister had a good business - buy for $1,600 and then sell for $10 million. It's true?

Now fast forward to 1998. The same one when the August crisis broke out, completely destroying the Russian economy. Andrei Kozyrev has already left his ministerial post and worked on the board of directors of the American pharmaceutical corporation ICN Pharmaceuticals. It was in 1998 that the ex-minister actively played in the GKO market, using insider information, which, according to the Prosecutor General, was provided to him by Anatoly Chubais. Kozyrev played, of course, until August, just before the crisis, having managed to receive gigantic sums from the Russian budget.

According to the then Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov, Kozyrev played with particular passion and invested huge sums in state bonds: “The former Minister of Foreign Affairs Kozyrev operated with billions of rubles in this market. When his name came up, he, like Chubais, began to be indignant: he didn’t play, they say... it’s a slander! Played! How he played! The operations are all written down, they all remain in the computer data bank! Like the operations of Gaidar and other players... These people, having Chubais as their friends, could well have used insider information.”

That is, even in the crisis year of 1998, citizen Kozyrev managed to get fabulously rich at the expense of the state. And we are talking about tens of millions of dollars. And you say that he has no head.

And now Andrei Kozyrev lives safely in the USA, in Miami, where he successfully invested the money he “earned” in Russia in luxury real estate. Well, it goes without saying that Western and opposition media continue to argue that “the United States (unlike Russia) is an authoritative democratic state. America is a great country. It is a superpower that plays a unique international role. When some new national leader appears - in Italian "Duce" - who tries to impose anywhere new order“The US can and will contain it.” Well done! He stole tens of millions of dollars in Russia, and is now working for a new owner. Well, so that they don’t send you home...

To be continued.

15:45 — REGNUM During the conversation between the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with experts from the Valdai Discussion Club, professor at Tallinn University Rain Muellerson spoke about the meeting in the early 90s of the then head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrey Kozyrev with former US President Richard Nixon. At the meeting Kozyrev said that

“Russia has no national interests, but only universal interests.” "Nixon just shook his head" , — the expert said.

“This shows that Nixon has a head.” , - Putin reacted. And he continued:“And Mr. Kozyrev, unfortunately, does not have one. The box is only cranial. But there is no head as such.”

However, Kozyrev was not only a headless minister, but also a direct traitor to the interests of our country. With the consent of Boris Yeltsin and his minions like Burbulis, he secretly prepared the surrender of all the Kuril Islands, which the Japanese government claims without legal grounds. Yeltsin was ready to sacrifice the Far Eastern territories in order to receive from “grateful Japan” economic assistance. He essentially gave Kozyrev carte blanche to develop a scheme for transferring the islands to Japan.

To prepare the residents of the Kuril Islands for the resettlement and arrival of the Japanese, Kozyrev in October 1991 sent a group of high-ranking “agitators” to the islands, consisting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR G. Kunadze, a member of the Human Rights Committee under the Supreme Council of Russia S. Sirotkin and the People's Deputy of the USSR, former KGB General O. Kalugin (in 2002 he was convicted in absentia of high treason and sentenced to 15 years in prison to be served in a maximum security colony).

Kuril resident Anatoly Samolyuk described this “visit” of Kozyrev’s emissaries in his book “Thrice Losing...”:

“After meeting with residents of Kurilsk and Reydovo (Iturup Island - A.K.) The envoys were immediately dubbed “chief persuaders.” Many Kuril residents have experienced clear opinion that the capital's guests came to prepare us for the idea of ​​the inevitability of the transfer of our native islands. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry was still trying to somehow veil the true situation behind a stream of soothing words, and his companions, less experienced in such matters, openly said, the same Sirotkin, that the fate of the Kuril residents would constantly be in the center of attention of the committee he headed. And even before the return of the islands to Japan, residents will be offered several options for further determining their fate...

Kalugin proposed to evaluate the step of the new democratic government of Russia, which explains its policy to the residents of the Kuril Islands even before resolving the issue, and does not confront them with a fact and does not hide possible options...

Kunadze and his support group quickly left for the South Kuril region. If on Shikotan his communication with local residents was relatively calm, then on Kunashir the “persuaders” were greeted with whistles and not the most flattering words. Later, the correspondent of Pravda (in Japan - A.K.) I. Latyshev wrote in his book how one evening he watched a report from a rally on the central square of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on one of the Japanese television channels. It was shown how local residents drove Kunadze from the podium and almost beat him, who arrived in the Kuril Islands in order to morally prepare the population of the southern Kuril Islands for the possible transfer of the islands to Japanese control.”

However, those who penetrated Olympus foreign policy To Russia, the newly minted “liberal diplomats” stubbornly stuck to their line of surrendering the Russian Far Eastern lands coveted by Tokyo. In March 1992, Kozyrev, secretly from the Russian and Japanese public, proposed the following option to Japanese Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe:

“We are concluding a Russian-Japanese peace treaty. Russia, following the provisions of the 1956 Joint Declaration, transfers two islands to Japan - Habomai and Shikotan. The parties will continue negotiations regarding the ownership of the islands of Kunashir and Iturup.”

This was a plan developed in the Russian Foreign Ministry by supporters of concessions to Japan to surrender the South Kuril Islands in two stages according to the notorious “two plus alpha” scheme. The leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intended to implement this plan during the official visit of the Russian President to Japan planned for September 1992. However, the widespread protest movement that was unfolding in Russia against Japan’s unjustified territorial concessions forced Yeltsin to hastily, three days before his departure, cancel this visit. The hesitation of the then Russian president was explained not by doubts about the legality of surrendering Russian lands, but solely by concern for his political future. He explained to Japanese journalists:

“It’s difficult for the Russian people now. Add another territorial problem to him - he won’t be able to stand it and will explode. I will leave Japan to applause, but they won’t let me into Russia.”

It became obvious that the issue of cession of Russian Far Eastern lands was increasingly turning from a diplomatic one into a political one.

Major General Boris Ratnikov, who held the position of First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Security of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1994, spoke about how Kozyrev’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs prepared the surrender of the Kuril Islands:

“On August 21, 1992, signed by Gaidar, the Government of the Russian Federation issued Order No. 1553-“On preparations for the visit of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin to Japan." Was created working group led by S. Glazyev, then first deputy minister of foreign economic relations of Russia. The historic visit was scheduled for September. I learned that in Tokyo Yeltsin was preparing to transfer 2-3 islands of the Kuril chain to Japan to demonstrate his new political course. Boris Nikolaevich wanted to show himself as a peacemaker. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev did not give up the islands, I did it! A number of figures from his inner circle urged him to take such a step.

Kozyrev, for example, is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Japanese, to celebrate, have already promised us the first loan of $100 million. But the Kuril Islands are a very sensitive issue. This is both the integrity of Russia and the fate of our citizens living there. Where should they go? There was no relocation or employment program. All this would cause outrage in the country. General Georgy Rogozin and I decided to test the situation and look at possible scenarios. Rogozin was a strong “psychic operator.” The information we received literally stunned us. As soon as Yeltsin transfers the islands to Japan, China will immediately make claims to Russia over its disputed territories. At that time, hundreds of kilometers of our border with China were not marked. An armed conflict could begin.

This time, the conflict could become larger and even escalate into a major war that would weaken Russia and China, two of the United States' competitors. That was what they were counting on overseas. Through agents of influence in the CPC Central Committee, Washington would push the Chinese leadership to take decisive action. The Russians gave the disputed Kuril Islands to Japan, and why are we worse? If they don’t give away the territory, we’ll take it ourselves! The Yankees had not only Kozyrev, who now lives in the USA, but also responsible Chinese comrades. The international community would declare China an aggressor. The UN and a number of countries would apply economic and political sanctions against an aggressor who encroached on the sovereign territory of another state. And perhaps they would have divided the Celestial Empire into ethnic regions. Beijing prevented Washington from establishing a unipolar world after the collapse of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. Moscow also interfered, but having lost the Soviet republics, it was in the background.

This is the catastrophic scenario that the seemingly innocent, peacekeeping transfer of the disputed Kuril Islands to Japan led to, which Kozyrev pushed Yeltsin to do.

I decided to check through the intelligence and counterintelligence agencies whether this information had a basis, whether the development of events could go according to the predicted scenario? A thorough check showed that the alleged situation and its consequences are quite real. The islands could not be given away.

I immediately reported the findings of our intelligence services to my immediate superior, the head of the Presidential Security Service, Alexander Korzhakov, and the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Yuri Skokov. Skokov was a very far-sighted and competent person, by the way, he did not drink, for which Yeltsin did not like him. Skokov fully supported us and immediately went to the President, insisting on canceling the visit. But in response, in addition to impartial words, I heard from Yeltsin: “Am I a king or not a king?!” If I want, I’ll give it, if I don’t want, I won’t give!”

We realized that it was useless to expect meaningful actions from Yeltsin, and we decided to act ourselves.”

Although General Ratnikov also referred to “extrasensory data” in his assessment of the situation, in general the analysis was correct, which was later confirmed by both Russian and Japanese sources.

The Japanese authorities' dissatisfaction with the unexpected cancellation of Yeltsin's visit in September 1992 was caused not so much by a gross violation of diplomatic protocol, but by poorly concealed disappointment that the deal apparently already agreed upon with Kozyrev and his assistants had fallen through.

So, President Putin impartially but fairly described the first minister of foreign affairs of “democratic Russia”, who is now basking on the beaches of Florida. The question remains, how to characterize Boris Yeltsin, who for six years held such an incompetent and narrow-minded person in one of the highest posts of the state, who directly harmed our country? Or was it the wish of the overseas friends of “dear Andrei,” as he was addressed from Washington?

For some reason, the first foreign minister of post-Soviet Russia, Andrei Kozyrev, who lives in the United States, has not changed much since he headed the Russian Foreign Ministry under Yeltsin.

Nicknamed “Mr. Yes,” the minister regularly surrendered positions to Russia in any issues lobbied by the United States. Today he continues to convince those who want to listen to him that in the 90s Russia pursued the only correct policy.

After the Russian President’s speech in Valdai, in which he briefly and succinctly described Kozyrev, the ex-minister commented on the words of Vladimir Putin, who said that Yeltsin’s chief diplomat “has no head, but only a skull.”

Trying to justify himself, Kozyrev was not too lazy to distort his own words: “I told Nixon the same thing as others. The national interests of Russia, like other democracies, are, in principle, consistent with universal human ones. And we created the CIS, did not fight with fraternal Ukraine, were friends with the most developed countries Europe and America were not under sanctions. Russians did not die fighting on the side of the dictator in Syria. "Tell me who your friend is and I'll tell you who you are." And do you have a head? Russia’s interests are opposed to the interests of the regime, whose leaders have their skulls turned back to the KGB.”

In fact, Kozyrev told Nixon something different. At a meeting of the Valdai Club, Tallinn University professor Rein Müllerson gave an exact quote when talking about Andrei Kozyrev’s meeting with Nixon in the early 90s. Then Kozyrev said that “Russia has no national interests, but only universal interests. Nixon just shook his head.”

It was to this story that the Russian President responded: “This suggests that Nixon has a head. But Mr. Kozyrev, unfortunately, does not have one. There is only a cranial frame. But there is no head as such.”

If Kozyrev really had a head, he would have refuted the quote from Rain Müllerson, and not tried to make jokes. His reaction means that Kozyrev really spoke about Russia’s lack of national interests. And he was even right - under Yeltsin, Russia really lived in illusions. Betraying allies and supporters from Cuba to Afghanistan, abandoning tens of millions of Russians scattered throughout post-Soviet countries to the mercy of fate, unilaterally revealing everything, even nuclear and industrial secrets, which are the basis of the existence of any state.

By the way, in his memoirs Kozyrev also wrote about his request to Nixon: “If you have any ideas and can tell us how to determine our national interests, then I will be very grateful to you.”

Even Mikhail Gorbachev at that time called Kozyrev’s Foreign Ministry “a branch of the US State Department.”

However, what can we talk about if such a zealous “patriot” of Russia has preferred to live in the USA since 2012?

REFERENCE. Andrei Kozyrev was Russian Foreign Minister from October 11, 1990 to January 5, 1996. After the diplomat first came to the United States in 1975 and was shocked by the assortment of a simple supermarket (later this would happen to Yeltsin), he gradually began to become an opponent of the Soviet system, rooted in his beliefs after reading Doctor Zhivago. In 1989, Kozyrev's career took an unexpected turn after the publication of an article sharply criticizing Soviet foreign policy in the journal International Affairs. There he proposed to reconsider the attitude towards “revolutionary friends” and Western countries so sharply that the article was subsequently republished even in The New York Times.