Is Kremlin craving for seating its vicegerent in Latvia?
The Russian-language newspaper Chas, issued in the Latvian capital city of Riga, has been instigating a version of desire of a Russian banker to become the next Prime Minister of Latvia. Media outlets in Russia have been helping to propagate the allegation, referring to an interview of a certain Alexander Gafin, an adviser to the Alfa-Bank of Russia President Petr Aven, to the above mentioned daily paper. Gafin is quoted by the Chas as saying that Aven is ready to incur the responsibility for taking out Latvia of financial and economic crisis if he will be proposed to become the Prime Minister. Gafin added that Aven could become a good prime minister as he had rich administrator’s experience and his private capital was estimated in 5 billion dollars. Moscow-based daily Vzglyad calls Aven’s ambitions ‘nothing but billionaire’s oddity’. On the one hand, this statement could be perceived as empty talk to embellish the interview with some spicy bit of rumour. Like questions which Moscow ra
