“In 1998, he was appointed director of the FSB. Just a week before [17 июля] Putin and I accidentally met on an airplane, flew together in Leningrad. It was on Friday. He was already working in Moscow, flew to visit his parents, as he told me, ”Nabutov recalled.
He noted that along with him and Putin, Igor Sechin, the current chairman of the board of Rosneft, also found herself in the same row, who headed the apparatus of Putin in 1998, who held the post of first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration.
“I was late, and I was the last fled on the plane, wet-poured, running, plowing [на свое место]I don’t think anything, I was almost late-and the side of the side is: “Well, what are you late? Because of you, the plane does not take off.” I look: Putin is sitting, and then Sechin sits at the window. We are sitting and for an hour (or how much the flight is there) we smell the smell of the toilet of the 154th aircraft-the toilet behind us, ”said Nabutov.
According to him, during a flight from Moscow to Leningrad (current St. Petersburg), they “chatted” about something.
“A week after that, in my opinion, him, [Путина]was appointed the FSB distarator, and such a rapid elevation began, ”said the Russian journalist.
He said that he then asked Putin why he was not flying in a business class, and he replied: “I am flying for my weekends. What is the money to spend extra money?”
“This indicates that in general a person is normally applied to this, and then there is a deformation of the personality. As I usually say, in any of us, as in the soil, there are seeds of different plants, and, depending on what climate in the yard, what the weather, what time, some seeds or others rise. So the person is arranged,” Nabutov believes.
Context
Nabutov was born in Leningrad in 1957. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Leningrad State University. He worked as a sports commentator and leading on many Russian channels, including RTR and NTV. He conducted the programs “Behind the Glass”, “One Day”, released documentaries on sports and historical topics. Now develops its YouTube channel “Nabutov”, which has more than 460 thousand subscribers.
In February 2022, he condemned the full -scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. In 2023 he moved with his family to Latvia. In the Russian Federation it is included in the list of “foreign agents”.
