St. Petersburg crime boss Ilya Traber arrested, while Anatoly Sobchak’s widow leaves the Federation Council

St. Petersburg crime boss Ilya Traber has been arrested, and Anatoly Sobchak’s widow is leaving the Federation Council. These people are part of Putin’s “gangster” past in St. Petersburg. What was it like?

On June 16, Russian media reported that Lyudmila Narusova — widow of St. Petersburg’s first mayor Anatoly Sobchak and mother of Ksenia Sobchak — may leave the Federation Council. A day later, it became known that Ilya Traber, a St. Petersburg businessman who had been close to Putin since the 1990s, had been detained and then arrested. Is Vladimir Putin breaking with his “gangster” past in St. Petersburg? What place do the Sobchak family and criminal figures like Traber occupy in his life? We discuss this with Mikhail Rubin, journalist and co-author of the book “The Tsar in Person.”

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On June 16, Russian media reported that Lyudmila Narusova — widow of St. Petersburg’s first mayor Anatoly Sobchak and mother of Ksenia Sobchak — may leave the Federation Council. A day later, it became known that…