Sergei Pugachev on the “unique opportunity” Sechin, which he received beside to Putin.
– They do deals, this is really very simple. Look, for example, how Sechin made a deal with Uliukaev. You see? Well, this is what happens all the time. Sechin has set up a system, as it were. It is like saying: any issue can be resolved successfully… or not, that is up to me. In other words, what Putin thinks is irrelevant, what matters is how I, Sechin, present the matter to him, how I manage to turn the whole thing. And this is true.
Sechin was given a unique opportunity as deputy head of the President’s administration. He was constantly close to Putin, all day, or even longer. This is why he was always so upset when Putin would not come to the Kremlin and stayed at his dacha instead. Sechin could not know who came to see Putin, he could not keep track of the coming and going. He tried to find out, by what means he could, he phoned… but then again he was faced with the usual State machinery, where everyone hates everyone…