{"id":3261,"date":"2013-09-05T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2013-09-05T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:04:35","slug":"david-bondermans-pals-1-this-time-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/david-bondermans-pals-1-this-time-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID BONDERMAN&#8217;S PALS #1  &#8212;this time: VLADIMIR PUTIN!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VENTURE CAPITALIST\/ENVIRONMENTALIST COMMENDS THE RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER FOR HIS&#8230;CANDOR!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From the Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Texas Pacific Group Investment Fund President David Bonderman&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bonderman to Putin:\u00a0 &#8220;Thank you very much for your nice words. First of all, I would like to say that we were all very impressed with your speech at the forum today&#8230;.In my opinion, <strong>you have laid out all important issues directly, openly, and candidly, which is not often the case with government officials.&#8221; <\/strong>(Emphasis added!!!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/government.ru\/eng\/docs\/5027\/#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3263\" title=\"bonderman&amp;putin2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bondermanputin21.jpeg\" width=\"545\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bondermanputin21.jpeg 545w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bondermanputin21-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><strong>To read the entire transcript of Mr. Bonderman&#8217;s glowing exchange with Mr. Putin, click on the photo. It will take you to the &#8220;Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Feb\/Mar Z (click the cover)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3264\" title=\"COVER-FEB2012\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/COVER-FEB20122-217x300.png\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/COVER-FEB20122-217x300.png 217w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/COVER-FEB20122-741x1024.png 741w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/COVER-FEB20122.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURE CAPITALIST\/ENVIRONMENTALIST COMMENDS THE RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER FOR HIS&#8230;CANDOR!!!!! From the Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation&#8230;&#8221;Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Texas Pacific Group Investment Fund President David Bonderman&#8221; Excerpt: Bonderman to Putin:\u00a0 &#8220;Thank you very much for your nice words. First of all, I would like to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}