Vyacheslav Maltsev Parnas. "Field Commander" live. Maltsev had been preparing his departure for several days.

“They are allegedly preparing plans to seize weapons depots and internal affairs departments”

For fear of criminal prosecution. The politician himself said that loyal employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs warned him that a case had been opened against him for “creating an extremist community.” So far no one has seen any documents confirming this; the Artpodgotovka website is still working. What became the reason for initiating a criminal case and what the fate of Artpodgotovka would be, MK found out.

“Artpodgotovka” is a YouTube channel created in 2011 by Saratov oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev, who was elected to the regional Duma several times in the past and even participated in the creation of a local branch of “ United Russia" For the first few years, the politician posted videos of his speeches on the channel. In 2013, Maltsev took up video blogging seriously. This is how the “Bad News” program appeared, in which Maltsev commented on the political agenda for an hour and a half. Now the program is gaining hundreds of thousands of views. In each new issue of Artpodgotovka, Maltsev counts down the days until the “beginning of a new historical era,” which, according to his forecast, should come on November 5, 2017. The oppositionist explained that, in his opinion, by this day there will be a revolution in Russia.

Press secretary of the unregistered Nationalist Party Denis Romanov told MK that it is difficult for him to answer the question about the continuation of the activities of Artpodgotovka. “This is not a movement,” Romanov explained. - People in the regions create VKontakte groups themselves. There is no centralized management of Artpodgotovka, this is not Maltsev. We don’t even know many of them.”

Judging by the information on the project’s website, “Artpodgotovka” exists in 53 regions of the country. MK managed to contact representatives of several of them. It turned out that people who are presented as participants in Artpodgotovka have different attitudes towards the project - and react differently to the departure of Vyacheslav Maltsev.

“I haven’t been in contact with Vyacheslav for a long time,” Dmitry from Belgorod told MK. “I realized that this is a man whose words do not match his actions, and that I need to go my own way.”

Lyudmila Chernetskaya from Kaliningrad, on the contrary, expressed support for the oppositionist, calling Maltsev’s decision “correct” in order “not to go to prison, but to stay with us.”

Sergei Stolpak from the Orenburg region shared with MK the plans of local activists: they wanted Vyacheslav Maltsev to participate in the gubernatorial elections in 2019. “That’s why we began to develop Artpodgotovka in the region,” Stolpak said. - The project is super. I’ll ask for authorship for “Artpodgotovka”; if it doesn’t work out, then we’ll do something similar ourselves.”

And in the Oryol region, “Artpodgotovka” was taken over by a group of nationalists. Local activist Igor Komov told MK about this.

There are also regions in which Artpodgotovka is doing much better. For example, in Perm, local activists interact with the branch of the People's Freedom Party. “Artpodgotovka now faces a serious task of reassessing values,” said Mikhail Kasimov, head of the local PARNAS branch, to MK. “I wish them to walk this path calmly.”

Why did a criminal case against Maltsev appear? The politician's troubles began in April of this year, when, after a search of his apartment, he was placed under administrative arrest for disobeying the police at a rally on March 26.

However, a MK source close to opposition circles believes that the reason for initiating a criminal case was the behavior of the politician’s former supporters.

Recently, Vyacheslav Maltsev joined the unofficial New Opposition movement. Its activists organized street protests and so-called opposition walks with the reading of the Constitution. There was discord within the New Opposition. Activists Roman Kovalev, Dmitry Stepanov and Yuri Gorsky (his home was also searched in April, but after interrogation by the Investigative Committee no charges were brought against the nationalist) began creating a youth wing of the opposition movement and began inviting activists from the pro-government Anti-Maidan movement to join it. Because of this, the trio was expelled from the New Opposition.

Soon, on Yuri Gorsky’s page, a link appeared to a recording of the discussion “Street protest of the non-systemic opposition,” which took place on June 15 in the State Duma building. Former New Opposition activist Roman Kovalev said at this event that he traveled to cities, talked there with Maltsev’s supporters and that they were allegedly preparing plans to seize weapons depots and internal affairs departments. These words, according to our source, served as the reason for initiating a criminal case against Maltsev. “There really is such an opinion,” Denis Romanov confirmed to MK. - We take a harsh view of this speech. Of course, it could have influenced Maltsev’s case.” Romanov called the content of Kovalev’s speech “not withstanding any criticism”: “No one prepared for anything.” He called the initiation of a criminal case against Maltsev “a small surprise”; this often happens with opposition politicians.

Vyacheslav Maltsev is a famous Russian politician, public figure and blogger. Deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma of three convocations. In 2016, he participated in the elections to the federal parliament from the opposition party PARNAS.

Biography of the politician

Vyacheslav Maltsev was born in Saratov in 1964. Higher education received from the Kursky Law Institute. Served in the border troops. Then he worked in the police. He started as a district inspector in the Saratov police department.

During perestroika, his career took off sharply. In 1989, Vyacheslav Maltsev took over the post of general director of the Saratov detective bureau "Allegro". Without hesitation, he at that time declared that he was the richest man in the region. His company employed about two thousand people. A few years later he sold his share in this business.

In 1994, Vyacheslav Maltsev, whose biography had previously been associated only with law enforcement agencies, went into politics. In May, he won the elections to the Saratov Regional Duma. Then he was re-elected two more times. Moreover, he held leadership positions. In the first and third convocations he was deputy chairman, and in the second and third convocations he was secretary of the regional parliament.

Party affiliation

In the 1990s, Vyacheslav Maltsev was a member of the Fatherland - All Russia party. There he met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the current chairman of the State Duma, former chief of staff of the government of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, he became a member of the new party "Great Russia", which adhered to pronounced nationalist views. It was never registered. Despite this, Vyacheslav Maltsev opened its regional branch in Saratov.

In parallel, in the same year he became active in the official socio-political movement "Russian People's Democratic Union". It was headed by Mikhail Kasyanov.

Original initiatives

In the regional parliament, Maltsev was remembered by many for his unusual legislative initiatives. So, in 2007, he proposed indicating to citizens who stand for election or want to become officials their sexual orientation.

The proposal was never supported.

Political Views

Vyacheslav Maltsev, whose biography (the politician’s nationality is also of interest to many) says that he is Russian, often makes controversial statements in the media.

Some sides accuse him of nationalistic views and rejection of any other nations. Others, on the contrary, believe that he is a Russophobe and is actually Jewish by nationality.

Personal life

Vyacheslav Maltsev, whose biography (family was one of the main priorities in life for him) clearly demonstrates the principle that has been applied since Soviet times. Even then, labor dynasties worked in factories and factories, but after the collapse of the USSR this factor acquired a pronounced negative connotation. According to journalists, Vyacheslav Maltsev is also in this situation. The biography (his parents had nothing to do with politics) of this man proves that much of what he achieved in this life was achieved with the help of connections and acquaintances. Political scientists claim that it was precisely this prohibited technique that the Maltsevs used in an attempt to “take over” the PARNAS party.

His biography, as it turns out, contains a lot dark spots. He was in several parties, changing one for another quickly and without regret. This is what Vyacheslav Maltsev did throughout his political career. Biography (family, children were always at the forefront for him) politics is not sufficiently covered in the media. He began trying to place his sons, Valery and Roman, in PARNAS.

One of them was nominated to the State Duma from Kaluga region, the youngest, Roman, is still just getting used to the political space. The Maltsevs' opponents discuss in detail the details of his privacy. For example, addiction to alcohol, suspicious sexual orientation and Nazi ideology.

Vyacheslav Maltsev also receives a certain amount of criticism. The personal life of the family today is under close surveillance. This is the fate of all public people.

"Bad News"

Maltsev himself in 2011 mastered a new format of communication with voters - a video blog. He began broadcasting “Bad News” on weekdays at 9 pm. At the same time as the most popular information program on television - “Vremya” on Channel One.

The episode lasts an hour and a half. Invited guests appear on air periodically. For example, nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma from the Yabloko party Olga Li, editor-in-chief radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexey Venediktov.

In his blog, Maltsev predicts the beginning of the revolution in Russia on November 5, 2017. Each episode counts down the days remaining until that date. At the same time, he calls himself a normal Russian nationalist. At the same time, he does not deny that he is engaged in populism.

Primary "PARNAS"

Vyacheslav Maltsev, whose height is 185 centimeters, decided to nominate his candidacy for elections to the State Duma in 2016. He participated in the primaries organized by the opposition party PARNAS.

This event took place on the Internet. First place in the federal list by default went to party leader Mikhail Kasyanov. The remaining positions were to be determined by online voting, which was to take place within 24 hours.

However, it was stopped before the end of the scheduled period. Personal data of voters appeared on the website. Representatives of the PARNAS party explained this as a hacker attack. At the time the voting was stopped, Maltsev was in the lead with a large advantage. Almost 5 and a half thousand voters cast their votes for him. Russian historian Andrei Zubov, who came second, received a little more than one and a half thousand votes. Experts explained this by the low voter turnout and the fact that Maltsev was able to quickly unite his supporters and like-minded people.

Despite all these facts, it was decided to recognize the primaries as valid and take into account their results. Part of the party elite was dissatisfied with Maltsev’s victory; a third of PARNAS members opposed his nomination. Basically, the leaders were unhappy that in the race for populism the party would lose some of its supporters who would prefer to vote for Yabloko. However, one vote was not enough to exclude Maltsev from the party membership at the federal political council.

Opponents accused Maltsev of anti-Semitism. He himself stated that he spoke out against the so-called Jewish mafia only once, speaking from the point of view of a legal scholar studying national criminal groups.

At the same time, Maltsev was supported by the regional branches of PARNAS. Ultimately, the party’s federal list included Mikhail Kasyanov, Vyacheslav Maltsev and Andrei Zubov.

Elections to the State Duma

Experts and political scientists note that due to Maltsev’s nomination on the federal list from PARNAS, the party lost some of its supporters. An unnamed source of the popular opposition media outlet Novaya Gazeta called the decision to nominate Maltsev political suicide for the unification.

One of the leaders of the political party, Konstantin Merzlikin, noted that with this decision, PARNAS made a bias towards the right-liberal, nationalist part of society, as opposed to the left-liberal representatives who traditionally vote for Yabloko.

Maltsev himself has repeatedly stated that in the State Duma he will promote the repeal of unconstitutional laws and call on the federal parliament to impeach President Vladimir Putin.

The candidate's election program included Putin's removal from power followed by a tribunal, an end to military aggression, and the conclusion of a peace treaty with Ukraine. It was also planned to provide greater rights and freedoms to the administrations of regions and republics, approve the election of prosecutors, police chiefs and judges, declare an economic amnesty, and assign to each citizen of Russia a certain part of the country’s national wealth. Maltsev also promised to introduce electronic money and move to free democracy.

In the elections to the State Duma, the PARNAS party took only 11th place out of 14 participants, gaining 73 hundredths of a percent of the votes. To get into the federal parliament it was necessary to receive a minimum of 5%. She was supported by less than 400 thousand Russians. PARNAS lost, in addition to the parties that received a parliamentary majority, to the Communists of Russia, Yabloko, the Party of Pensioners for Justice, Rodina, the Party of Growth and the Greens. Only Patriots of Russia, Civil Power and Civil Platform managed to bypass the Parnassians.

PARNAS showed the highest figures in Moscow (2.62%) and St. Petersburg (2.18%), but even here it was not possible to get 5%. In the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen republics, one hundredth of one percent of voters voted for the party. She never won a single seat in the federal parliament.

Criticism of Maltsev

Both his opponents and fellow party members speak critically about Maltsev. Maltsev’s main trump card has always been criticism of the current president. He actively used it during debates, even when the topic was completely different, for example, the Russian economy.

Many compare him in behavior and conduct political struggle with the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is also famous for his harsh and scandalous statements.

Vyacheslav Maltsev is a well-known political personality in the Saratov region, a non-systemic oppositionist, entrepreneur, public figure and video blogger. Since 2011, he has run the YouTube channel “Artpodgotovka” (the movement of the same name is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), known for the “Bad News” section. In 2016, he ran for the State Duma from the PARNAS party.

Early years and education

Maltsev Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich, born in 1964, grew up in Saratov, graduated there high school No. 8. After receiving the certificate, he entered the evening department of the Saratov Law Institute named after D.I. Kursky, and at the same time worked as an analytical statistician in the Kirov district committee of the Komsomol.

In 1982, he decided to serve in the border troops, which he completed in 1985. After returning home, Maltsev decided to finish his studies at the institute and was reinstated in the specialty “Jurisprudence.” In 1987, he received a law degree and joined the Allegro detective bureau, which was engaged in private detective work and security. In 2 years, Maltsev managed to achieve the director’s post, which he held until 1996.

The enterprise brought Vyacheslav good income - in the 90s he was perhaps the richest man in the region. Subsequently, he sold it and all the property for an amount that, in his own words, would last him for many years to come.

Political Views

In May 1994, Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich was elected as a deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma, and in June he took the position of chairman of the Duma Committee on Legality, Combating Crime, Security and Protection of Individual Rights, which also included deputies Anatoly Astashkin, Oleg Karpov, Vladimir Pavlov, Anatoly Sokolov and Yuri Sosedov. In April 1996, Maltsev became deputy chairman of the regional Duma.

He held this post until September of the following year, until the second convocation of the Saratov Regional Duma. Maltsev was re-elected “for a second term”, after which he headed the committee dealing with issues of budget policy, property and taxes. In 2002, he was again elected deputy speaker. At the elections to the Duma of the third convocation, Maltsev again found himself in the ranks of deputies, subsequently again occupying the post of deputy chairman.

From 2003 to 2005, the politician opposed the governor of the Saratov region, Dmitry Ayatskov. While running for the State Duma, he founded the Anti-Ayatskov Foundation, demanding the early termination of the governor’s powers under the slogan “Down with Ayatskov!” At the same time, Maltsev did not hide his old personal resentment and hatred, since it was the governor who once “destroyed” his company.

In the 90s, he was also a member of the Fatherland - All Russia party (the future United Russia), where he met Vyacheslav Volodin. He ran for the State Duma for the first time from this bloc (in 1999), but failed. According to Maltsev, in 2003 he himself decided to leave the party, although membership opened up great political prospects for him.

After that, he became a convinced antagonist of United Russia, and his idol was the revolutionary Che Guevara, whose portrait always hung in his office. To himself, Vyacheslav liked to say that he was a true fighter: by profession, by occupation, by character and vocation.

Debate: Maltsev VS Zhirinovsky

In 2007, Vyacheslav Maltsev became one of the co-founders of the nationalist party “Great Russia” and headed its branch in the Saratov region. However, official registration of the party was denied twice.

In parallel with membership in " Great Russia“He promoted Mikhail Kasyanov’s Russian People’s Democratic Union in Saratov, and in 2012 he attempted to run for the Saratov Regional Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but was unsuccessful.

"Art preparation"

Maltsev started blogging on YouTube at the end of 2011. He recorded a video in a “talking head” format, expressing his opinion on the current political situation in the country. The channel's audience grew exponentially - the number of viewers of its daily live broadcasts exceeded 100 thousand users. Many users noted that Maltsev is like a drug for them – it’s addictive.

The success of “Artpodgotovka” largely helped Maltsev win the PARNAS federal primaries in 2016. However, due to a personal data leak scandal, the voting results were canceled. At the party congress, about a third of its members voted against Vyacheslav’s nomination, including leader Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

Maltsev had to fight off accusations of anti-Semitism and populism. The politician himself claimed that his main goal of being nominated to the State Duma was “the repeal of Vladimir Putin’s unconstitutional laws and the impeachment of the president.”

Personal life of Vyacheslav Maltsev

For Vyacheslav Maltsev, family and children have always been a priority. His wife Anna Maltseva and three children - Roman (born 1989), Varvara (born 2009) and Valery - were always by his side.

Vyacheslav’s sons followed in their father’s footsteps, joined the PARNAS party and ran for the State Duma on its behalf.

Roman Maltsev “distinguished himself” by posting in social networks photographs of themselves in Nazi uniform, holding weapons, and wearing a woman's wig.

Vyacheslav Maltsev now

On April 13, 2017, police officers detained Vyacheslav Maltsev. To search his apartment in Saratov, they had to cut out the door with a grinder. The politician was accused of causing unlawful violence to an official government representative at an anti-corruption rally on March 26 in Moscow.

On July 4, 2017, Maltsev managed to escape the investigation in Moscow, leave Russia and move to Georgia. After this, a criminal case was opened against him for public calls for extremist activities. In October of the same year, the court recognized “Artpodgotovka” extremist organization, thereby banning its activities in Russia. Maltsev was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list.

Maltsev’s “art preparation” planned a series of arson attacks on administrative buildings in large cities. The action was planned for November 4-5, National Unity Day. The FSB prevented the action in Moscow by detaining several of Maltsev’s supporters.

Blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev is already going online from foreign addresses. Still from a video of the YouTube channel Artpodgotovka

Oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev, who left Russia because of a criminal case on extremism, will continue campaigning in forced emigration, his comrades told NG. However, given Maltsev’s nationalist views and statements, it will not be so easy for him to obtain political refugee status in any European country. Meanwhile, the FSB has already interrogated another opposition nationalist, Yuri Gorsky.

As Maltsev’s ally Konstantin Zelenin told NG, in fact he has no intention of seeking asylum abroad yet. Zelenin explained that Maltsev intends to stay outside the country legally for as long as possible.

Maltsev, who appears on the Internet from time to time, we note, stubbornly does not indicate his whereabouts. According to NG sources, he is now still in Moldova.

Maltsev’s departure has been discussed since 2013; it is connected with the development of a criminal case against him, Zelenin recalled. However, it is clear that the oppositionist gained real nationwide fame during the State Duma elections from PARNAS, when during one of the television discussions he spoke out for the impeachment of President Vladimir Putin.

Those around Maltsev reported that a criminal case had been opened against him for extremism, and “sources in the security forces” warned him about the supposedly impending arrest. As you know, in another case – following the results of the anti-corruption action on June 12 – Maltsev’s associate Alexey Politikov was arrested. Let us note, however, that Gorsky, according to the representative of the New Opposition, Roman Kovalev, was detained on July 5 on a completely different case of extremism, which was allegedly demonstrated by participants in the May Day march of nationalists.

According to Zelenin, the materials of Politikov’s case indicate that the structure founded by Maltsev called “Artpodgotovka” is an “extremist organization,” although we are “just talking about a YouTube channel.” “In general, it became clear to us that something was being prepared regarding Maltsev,” Zelenin explained. In his opinion, Maltsev’s departure abroad confirms the forecast about the end of the political era, which he expressed in his programs, “like Lenin, who left the country to emigrate and returned after the February Revolution.” Let us remind you that Maltsev prophesies his revolution for November 5, 2017.

Maltsev's departure caused a huge resonance among the opposition. “No one is obliged to go to jail and sacrifice themselves. But there is a difference between an ordinary activist, a private citizen and those who take on the burden of political leadership, says Solidarity co-chairman Ilya Yashin. “If you pretend to be Che Guevara and shout about revolution at every corner, and then run away from the country after the first slap in the head, this is at least funny.”

On the other hand, there is nothing surprising in the fact that a person chose to leave prison, thus adding to the already large group of emigrants from Russia, says political emigrant Pavel Elizarov. "It's funny that the patient old man didn’t want to die in a Russian prison? His political career, of course, will not benefit from leaving, but its prospects were already dubious,” he replied to Yashin via NG.

Elizarov obviously has in mind Maltsev’s controversial reputation, which only strengthened after his departure. Let us recall that his comrades on the list of candidates for the State Duma from PARNAS criticized him for nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and populism, emphasizing that the democrats and Maltsev cannot have any common agenda other than the demand for Putin’s resignation. Supporters of the latter generally held a similar opinion regarding the Democrats.

Due to his radical views, Maltsev’s future abroad is in question. For example, Ukraine had previously denied him entry, accusing him of supporting separatists from Donbass. In response, Maltsev has already promised to set 600 thousand of his Ukrainian supporters against President Petro Poroshenko. In Moldova, where Maltsev appears to be now, he can legally stay for up to 90 days. After this, he will have to resolve the issue of status; the most likely solution is to obtain political asylum.

But it seems that it is now not so readily provided to fugitives from Russia. For example, recently the refusal of the Lithuanian authorities to give asylum to the Russian journalist Yevgeny Titov caused a great stir. He left the country back in 2015 – after threats for exposing reports about the construction of a bridge to Crimea. Lithuania's decision has already drawn criticism from international human rights organizations.

Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius called the negative response from his country’s migration service a mistake. He explained that there have been no major changes in the procedure for obtaining asylum in EU countries. “Members of the Lithuanian Parliament and I, as a member of the European Parliament, intend to contact the department with a request. The mistake must be corrected,” he emphasized.

As for Maltsev, he, as a video blogger, does not have to be in Russia to maintain his authority and expand his audience, the head of the Political Expert Group, Konstantin Kalachev, told NG. He is not sure that Maltsev will seek political asylum somewhere, but “he won’t rush back either.”

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In July 2017, politician Vyacheslav Maltsev was warned of an impending arrest. A criminal case against him has not yet been opened. “I was simply warned that it would be opened and that the order had been given to imprison me for life. (I received the information) from those people who were given this directive, because they hate Putin and are our secret supporters. I don’t know them at all,” Maltsev says now NT. Together with his comrade-in-arms Andrei Nemchinov, he drove a car into Belarus and headed to the border with Ukraine.

Flight and refuge

But Maltsev was not allowed into Ukraine: it turned out that the oppositionist was included in the “black list” on the notorious website “Peacemaker”* (this is an open database of personal data of people whom the site’s authors call “separatists” or “agents of the Kremlin” - information collected by illegal through or through open sources, the site is blocked in Russia; it contains, for example, data on Russian journalists who received accreditation in the DPR and LPR). Then Maltsev called his supporter Olga Kurnosova, a Russian activist living in recent years in Kyiv. She, in turn, contacted their mutual friend, the Frenchman Pierre Affner, known among Maltsev’s supporters as “France” (he has lived in Moscow for a long time and has participated in their actions in the last year and a half). Kurnosova told NT that she asked Affner to help Maltsev enter France.

Affner met with the oppositionist in Montenegro - there another associate, Vladimir Kuznetsov, joined Maltsev and Nemchinov. All three did not have French visas. To help the fugitives obtain them, Affner made an appointment with the first secretary of the French embassy in Montenegro and flew to Podgorica. The embassy suggested that they go to Belgrade for visas, where the nearest consular hotel was located. “But a whole brigade of FSB men was waiting for us in Belgrade,” Affner described what was happening in an interview with the Kyiv website Rusmonitor. - Maltsev said that he would not go to Serbia, as he could be captured there, because the Russians had put him on the All-Russian wanted list and to Interpol. He told me: the Serbian police will detain me, and then I will end up in Moscow, in Lefortovo. Then I suggested another option. I said: if you cannot fly directly to France, then let’s fly to the visa-free country of Morocco in transit through France, through Charles de Gaulle airport. We will get off the plane, and when we find ourselves in the transit zone, I will go with you to the border guards and say - these are my comrades, they need political asylum.”

“HE TOLD ME: I WILL BE DETAINED BY THE SERBIAN POLICE, AND THEN I WILL END UP IN MOSCOW, IN “LEFORTOVO”

Maltsev received asylum last week - “in one of the European Union countries,” as he said for secret reasons, apparently, in an interview with the Current Time TV channel. In September, he and his comrades were released from the temporary detention center where they had been held since their sudden arrival in Paris. Affner then told Rusmonitor that he was going to help Maltsev and his comrades settle in France with the participation of Russian emigrants. Interview NT Maltsev also gave with the assistance of France.

Where does the Saratov oppositionist get money to live in exile? “I lived quite well all my life because I made a lot of money in the 1990s. There was property that I periodically sold. I never got fat, I didn’t buy expensive things, I lived modestly, so I had enough to live on,” says Maltsev. And he reminds us of his financial sense: “On December 16, 2014, the ruble fell significantly, and on November 10, I hosted a program with Stepan Demura**, suggested everyone to play to reduce the ruble and named the date of the collapse of the ruble - December 17 - I was wrong by only one day. Our people who watched the program and invested, roughly speaking, a thousand dollars, earned $60 thousand. And I also made money, and not bad at that. I always feel things like this in my skin.”