Putin Brings Russia
Into the Money…

Simply put: Vladimir Putin is finally making his move, and he isn’t being shy about it either.
And why should he?
Under Putin’s watch, Russia has once again become a hugely prosperous world economic superpower.
In fact, since Putin has become president, scores of Russian companies have been seeing massive profits.

Just take a look at what these Russian stocks have done while Putin has been in office…
Norilsk Nickel up 646%… Novolipetsk Steel up 268%…
Lukoil Oil Co. up 578%… Uralkali up 1,350%…
Severstal Steel up 794%… Surgutneftegas up 500%…
Raspadskaya up 288%… Evraz Group up 369%…
Sibir Energy up 904%… Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel up 140%…
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Spend a few minutes checking out the Russian indexes, and you’ll find more big gainers then you can even count.
In fact, the entire indexes themselves have been thriving.
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange is up 162% in the past three years. The Russian Trading System Stock Exchange has shot up 86% through 2006.
The money just keeps on flowing.

Putin is ruling from atop a sky-high mountain of cash. Russia’s GDP is surging at 8% growth a year. They’ve paid off a foreign debt that at its height was close to $200 billion. And by 2020, they’ll be one of the five largest economies in the world.
And it’s almost entirely thanks to their overflowing natural resources.
Believe it or not, Russia recently jumped past Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading supplier of petroleum. And that’s in addition to having the world’s largest natural gas reserves under its control!
You’ve got no idea how dangerous this makes them!

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Meet Vladimir Putin. . .

• Holds a personal net worth
of $41 billion

• Controls 20% of the world’s
oil and natural gas

• Has befriended Iranian President Ahmadinejad and provided him with his first shipment of nuclear fuel

• Opposes the U.S. war against Iraq and has spoken out publicly against other U.S. military interests

• Has imposed censorship on television and radio stations, newspapers and Internet sites critical of his administration’s policies

• Has taken over controlling interest of Russia’s largest company, Gazprom, from private ownership

• Is intent on using Russia’s
vast natural resource reserves to manipulate the world to do as he wishes… or pay dire consequences…

“The time when Washington could look on Moscow as a budding strategic partner is quickly fading into history.”
Kiplinger’s

“Some believe that we are too lucky to possess so much natural wealth, which they say must be divided. These people have lost their mind.”
-Vladimir Putin

“As relations continue to sour, Putin may well retaliate against U.S. and European Union companies doing business in Russia.”
– Kiplinger’s

“He’s the new czar of Russia and he’s dangerous in the sense that he doesn’t care about civil liberties, he doesn’t care about free speech.”
– Richard Stengel, Managing Editor,
TIME Magazine

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I’ll tell you this: After returning from my travels in Russia, I’ve never been so thankful to be an American.

The Washington Post goes so far as to say that Putin is “imposing dictatorship the old-fashion way.”

Putin’s iron-fisted control over Russia’s resource riches has sent him on a power trip worthy of Alexander the Great.

Putin governs Russia with a philosophy the Kremlin calls “Managed Democracy”… which is code for “not a Democracy at all.”

Just a few examples are all it takes to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up…

• He’s seized controlling interest of Gazprom, Russia’s largest energy company and the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world.

• He ruthlessly dismantled Gazprom’s biggest non-state energy competitor, Yukos Oil, by charging them over $7 billion in back taxes and then throwing their CEO into a Siberian prison to rot. He then proceeded to sell Yukos at a fire-sale price to a company he owns 20% of.

• Putin’s secret police force is suspected in the murders of three Russian journalists, all of whom were working on stories exposing corruption inside his administration. When a former official came forward and accused Putin of the killings, he was soon found dead, as well.

• He’s followed devotedly by an almost cultish-like youth movement called the Nashi. Putin often visits their training camps and rallies, including a recent one next to the Kremlin attended by over 20,000 Nashi members where he delivered fiery anti-Western rants and speeches.

• Putin’s second term as President thankfully ends this year. But not so fast… Russia’s incoming President, Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to uphold Putin’s policies. And Putin has already announced that he will assume the position of Russian Prime Minister immediately following Medvedev’s inaguration, all but ensuring that his reign over the country will continue for years to come.

According to The British Financial Times, since Putin has been in office, he’s taken
“a chainsaw to the fragile roots of Russian

Democracy.”That’s an understatement if I’ve ever heard one.

And his core philosophy in doing so is that America’s days as the world’s preeminent economic superpower are long over.

In his mind, this is Russia’s moment to shine, and he’ll do anything he has to in order to make it happen.

Even though his attack is already underway, there’s still time to protect yourself.

And not only that, but to actually MAKE money off of this escalating crisis, too.

Andrew Mickey
Editor, BreakAway Investor

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On Thursday, June 8, Russia became the latest in the list of countries that shifted a part of its Central Bank reserves from the USD. Sergei Ignatyev, chairman of the Central Bank, said that only 50 percent of its reserves are now held in dollars, with 40 percent in Euro and the rest in GBP. Earlier it was believed that just 25-30 percent of Russia’s reserves were held in Euros, with virtually all the rest held in dollars.

Russia’s gold and foreign currency reserves have grown rapidly over the last few years in tandem with high oil and gas prices. As MosNews has reported earlier, Russia currently has the world’s fourth-largest reserves, after China, Japan and Taiwan, and it looks to overcome Taiwan by the end of the year, with reserves growing by $5-6 billion monthly.
The Russian Central Bank’s move ties in with increasing signs that Middle Eastern oil exporters are also looking to diversify their reserves out of the dollar. “This is a bearish development for the dollar,” Chris Turner, head of currency research at ING Financial Markets, told the British Financial Times. “It reminds us that global surpluses are accumulating to the oil exporters,and Russia is telling us that an increasingly lower proportion of these reserves will be held in dollars. This suggests there is a trend shift away from the dollar.”
Clyde Wardle, senior Emerging Market Currency strategist at HSBC, told the paper: “We have heard talk that Middle Eastern countries are doing a similar thing and even some Asian countries have indicated their desire to do so.”
Moscow’s move was unsurprising. Russia’s $71.5billion Stabilization fund, which accumulates windfall oil revenues, is due to be converted from rubles to 45 percent dollars, 45 percent euros and 10 percent sterling. The day-to-day movements of the ruble are monitored against a basket of 0.6 dollars and 0.4 euros. About 39 percent of Russia’s goods imports came from the eurozone in 2005, against just 4 percent from the US.
The statement plays into a perception that central banks, which together hold $4.25 trillion of reserves, are increasingly channeling fresh reserves away from the dollar to reduce potential losses if the dollar was to fall sharply.

SOURCE: MOSNEWS

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Putin’s Dangerous Game of
“Resource Roulette”…

With Russia’s rapidly growing influence in the global marketplace, Putin knows that now is the time for his long-planned power play to get underway.
And he knows the path to power is littered with desperate commodity buyers…
That’s why he’s maintaining feverish control over Russia’s resources… and more specifically — who gets a hold of them.
It’s a ploy I call “Resource Roulette,” and it’s precisely how Putin plans on launching his full-force offensive against the U.S. economy.
It’s a simple strategy, really.
Either fall in line and comply with Putin’s demands or find somewhere else to buy your oil, natural gas or any other resource for that matter.
And in a frenzied buyers’ market like this, that’s next to impossible.
Putin isn’t bluffing either.
On New Year’s Day, 2006, Gazprom, Russia’s massive nationalized LNG company, cut off any and all gas supplies to the Ukraine when they failed to comply with Gazprom’s price demands.
The message was loud and clear. Putin has the power, and he’s more than willing to use it.
“Putin could flip a switch and families from Paris to Milan would go to sleep with their coats on tonight,” says Conde Nast Portfolio magazine.

Putin’s punishment of the Ukraine opened many eyes, and not just in Europe either.
This year, Russia is scheduled to open a natural gas pipeline from one of its Eastern Pacific Coast islands that will supply 20% of its reserves to the United States.
This is a deal with the devil if I’ve ever seen one!
If Putin decides he doesn’t like a U.S. policy — economic, military or otherwise — he holds the ultimate bargaining chip in his back pocket.
He can do the exact same thing to the U.S. that he did to the Ukraine in 2006. And I can guarantee you, he won’t lose a wink of sleep over it either.
And it’s not just natural gas Putin can cut off. Nickel, timber, platinum, copper… you name it – he can make sure you never see a bit of it.
We’re talking about basic raw materials needed for everyday life. Without them, society as we know it could completely break down…
This game of “Resource Roulette” that Putin is playing has enabled him to do almost whatever he wants in the world.
He’s virtually untouchable; and he’s got his own country on a complete lockdown, the likes of which we haven’t seen since Joseph Stalin.
Believe me; I saw it with my own eyes…

“As relations continue to sour, Putin may well retaliate against U.S. and European Union companies doing business in Russia.”
– Kiplinger’s

Andrew Mickey
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Putin Fires First Shot at America…
and Your Portfolio…

Less then 10 hours after the 2007 G8 Summit with President Bush and other major leaders in Germany ended, Vladimir Putin made his cutthroat intentions known to the world.
“The world is changing before our eyes,” he said before 200 corporate leaders at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.

Global financial institutions like the World Trade Organization and the IMF were, according to Putin, “archaic, undemocratic and inflexible.”
They didn’t, he said, “reflect the new balance of power.”
And Putin left little doubt as to where this new balance of economic power would be centered.
“The new architecture of economic relations requires a completely new approach,” he stated defiantly.
“Russia intends to become an alternative global financial center and to make the ruble a reserve currency for central banks.”
This was more than just a warning shot. It was a blazing opening salvo that caught the U.S. and the rest of the world, for that matter, totally off guard.
Putin was pouncing on the weakened dollar, going for the kill shot on its global value. And it didn’t take a genius to figure out that what he was pitching Russia as the “alternative” to was the U.S.
This was the beginning of a well-planned attack designed to dismantle America’s economy, take down the institutions supplying its wealth and shift the world’s center of power from Washington D.C. straight to Moscow.
It all dates back to the mid-‘90s when then-President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin as the head of the FSB (the secret police successor to the KGB).
Putin watched helplessly as Yeltsin sunk his beloved country deeper and deeper into debt and rendered Russia less and less relevant in the world’s economic scene.
He bided his time running the FSB until Yeltsin finally resigned in 2000, leaving the presidency to Putin.
He could hardly wait to get to work and to resurrect Russia on the international scene.
Eight years later, he’s done just that — and with a vengeance.
So, how is it possible to take a flailing, debt-ridden country and put it in a position to directly challenge the U.S. for economic supremacy in less than 10 years?
Two words: natural resources.
It’s mind-blowing, really.
Putin’s grand empire accounts for over 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas reserves. That makes Russia virtually energy independent from the rest of the world.
Russia also holds huge reserves of countless raw materials, including iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates and gold, and the forests of Siberia contain an estimated one-fifth of the world’s timber supply!
They’re a rogue nation, the largest in the world, in fact, that owes allegiance to no one but themselves.
That poses an incredible threat not only to the world at large, but to the U.S., especially, and, quite possibly, your personal finances most of all.

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Putin Plunges Red Dagger Into
America’s Financial Heart!

I’ve just returned from an extensive fact-finding mission throughout Russia with some shocking news.
At this very moment, the country’s ruthless, power-hungry president, Vladimir Putin, is taking bold steps toward becoming a very real, very dangerous threat to your well-being — financial or otherwise.

Do a little digging, and you’ll find that word has already begun to spread…

The New York Times has reported that U.S. officials “have growing doubts about the nature of [Putin’s] leadership.”

USA Today confirms and says that Putin “is now showing his true - and very Soviet - colors.”
Inside Russia, The Moscow Times states,”Russia is full of fear. Businessmen and politicians are afraid of Vladimir Putin. [Putin] relishes the fear. The greater the fear, the stronger his power.”

And the U.K.’s oldest and most-respected newspaper, The Daily Mail, goes so far as to call Putin a “brutal despot who is dragging the West into a new Cold War.”

Bottom line: Vladimir Putin is not the friend to the U.S. that we once thought he was.
And, as much as I wish these reports were sensationalizing the situation, they’re not!
In fact, it’s actually much worse.
You see, Putin is already in the early stages of a strategic strike on the United States economy, the likes of which could cripple our nation for decades.
That’s right, even as you read this, the attack is underway; and, sadly, most won’t realize it until it’s too late.
Putin’s playing it smart and hitting our weak spots — taking aim at our struggling dollar, our growing energy crisis and our crumbling healthcare industry.
And with his warhorses racing toward us at full speed, all of these things are going to get a lot worse, real fast.
Now, when I say Putin has begun an “attack,” it’s important to realize that we’re not talking about cruise missiles or machine guns.
No, instead this fight is being led with commodities such as nickel, oil and liquid natural gas. The very commodities Americans use to fuel their cars, heat their homes, maintain their health and more.

That’s right. Russia’s abundant natural resources are also its absolute deadliest secret weapons.
That’s why now it’s more important than ever for you to protect yourself from the dangerous game Putin is playing with the rest of the world.
And that’s what I’ve spent the past 17 days throughout Eastern Europe working on for you.
My name is Andrew Mickey, and I’ve created what I believe to be an ironclad protection plan for you and your portfolio against Putin’s upcoming attack.
But this isn’t just about preserving your assets.

I can tell you with 100% confidence that this could be your one and only chance to immunize yourself from this insidious threat and actually BUILD your wealth, to boot!
Believe me, I’ve seen what’s taking place over in Russia firsthand, and I can safely say that we haven’t seen a threat like this since the darkest days of the Cold War.
Now is the time to make your move. If you wait even a few short weeks, it could already be too late.
All I ask is that you take the next few moments to read through this urgent report. Inside, I’ll spell out in precise detail how Vladimir Putin - the most dangerous man alive - is working to destroy your wealth and well-being.
So, let’s not waste another second…

Andrew Mickey
Editor, BreakAway Investor

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