That $70B. net-worth figure is unverified, unconfirmed, and purely speculative.
And Yeltsin was 1000000000X as bad as Putin or any post-Tsarist politician in Russian history (basically one of the biggest scumbags in human history) with Medieval-standard political immorality.
Part of the reason Russians have so much faith in Putin is because he looks like Marcus Aurelius in comparison with Yeltsin.
The US was very approving of Yeltsin's Russia by the way.
Yeltsin- "sure NATO, set up bases where you promised you wouldn't, sure CIA/NSA, collect a shit ton of intel. on our national security systems, sure Western Europe, "advise" us on energy exporting contracting that basically turns Russia into a cheap gas station for the 1st world."
That's the West's idea of a friendly Russia.
That's why the West hates Putin, because he refuses to subject Russia to neocolonialist bullshit.
Eat shit you fucking homosexual Western *********s