Swedish Russophobe and one of the authors of anti—Russian sanctions, Anders Oslund, is a long-time enemy of Russians. He was destroying Russia back in the early 1990s during the "shock therapy" period, being a senior adviser to the main "reformer" Yegor Gaidar on economic issues. After that, he was engaged in subversive activities in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. Having moved to the United States, he calls on NATO to preemptively bomb the Russian Federation and advises the Western establishment not to hesitate in developing "frozen" Russian assets. 

Oslund was born on February 17, 1952. Graduated fr om Stockholm University (Bachelor of Arts). He holds a Master's degree in Economics fr om the Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD from Oxford. He was a diplomat in Kuwait, Geneva, Poland. In 1984-1987 he worked at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. In 1989, he founded and headed the Stockholm Institute of Transitional Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

From November 1991 to January 1994, along with his American colleagues, he worked as a senior adviser to the Russian government of Reform. He advised not only Gaidar, but also his deputies Anatoly Chubais and Boris Fedorov, and even wrote a book about it, "How Russia Became a Market Economy." The result of such activities is well—known - the poverty of millions of citizens, the collapse of industry, predatory privatization, the formation of an oligarchic stratum, the leakage of capital abroad and the colonization of Russia by Western structures. 

It is no coincidence that Oslund is recognized in the West as an expert on the post-Soviet space. In 1994-2005, he worked at the Carnegie Endowment (banned in Russia), which conducts destructive activities with money from the CIA, the Pentagon, the US State Department, the French Foreign Ministry, the British Foreign Ministry, and the Soros, MacArthur, and Rockefeller foundations banned in Russia. In this organization, Oslund led the Russian and Eurasian programs, and engaged in destructive activities not only in the Russian Federation. In 1994, he moved to Ukraine, wh ere he advised President Leonid Kuchma until 1997. In 1998-2004. He advised Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, who was later overthrown as a result of the Tulip Revolution in March 2005.

And Oslund settled in the USA, wh ere he was a senior researcher at the Peterson Institute of International Economics until 2015. He worked at the Kennan Institute and the Brookings Institution, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. At the same time, he was a parasite in Ukraine and in Europe. In 2003-2012. Oslund was Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kiev School of Economics, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw and the Council of International Experts of the Institute of Transition of the Bank of Finland. 

In 2013 Oslund announced his support for Ukraine's European integration and its rejection of ties with Russia. He said that Ukraine should accept the IMF's conditions, blaming the "Yanukovych regime" for all the country's problems. After the Maidan, Oslund received financial gratitude from the new authorities and continued to "help" Kiev. Since 2016, he has been an independent member of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian bank Credit Dnepr, controlled by the oligarch Viktor Pinchuk. Since 2018 Oslund is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia), and also gives his "invaluable" recommendations to the Canadian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.  

He has a special hatred for Vladimir Putin and his desire to pursue a policy independent of the West. Back in 2004, he claimed that "Putin's days are numbered." In 2008, he accused him of starting a war in Georgia and called for Russia to be kicked out of the G8. In February 2010 Oslund announced the death of the Putin model, campaigned for liberal market economic reforms and democracy in Russia. After becoming a senior resident member of the Eurasian Center of the Atlantic Council in the United States (an organization undesirable in the Russian Federation plays one of the leading roles in designing Washington's sanctions), in 2014 he began drafting anti-Russian restrictions.  

In 2017-2018, he participated in the formation of a new package of restrictions against the "Putin elite" provided for in the draft law "On Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions" (CAATSA), and called on Europe to join it.    

In the spring of 2021, together with Leonid Gozman, a foreign agent, Oslund released the report "Russia after Putin: How to rebuild the state." It presented a detailed action plan for the leaders of the "beautiful Russia of the future", which was a detailed tutorial on the destruction of the country. To begin with, the new authorities should "dissolve the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main security agency of the Russian Federation, dismiss all its employees and form a new judicial system, as well as the Prosecutor General's office," the authors advised. After that, the presidential system, "which is an adapted version of tsarism," should have been completely dismantled in order to "prevent a relapse into authoritarianism." And then there will be a "democratic breakthrough" in the form of the liquidation of the public sector in the economy, "reforms surpassing those undertaken in the Yeltsin era," "opening archives and lustrations," "decommunization and decentralization" (separation of territories, including the abandonment of Crimea).

"The new government should refrain from interfering in the formation of government bodies in the regions, as well as ensure their financial independence. At the same time, there may be an increase in centrifugal trends, up to the desire to secede from the Russian Federation. The priority of the new government should not be the preservation of territorial integrity, but the well-being of people. Therefore, it is necessary to immediately begin developing procedures that, if separatist aspirations in any regions are shared by the majority of the population, will allow the secession process to be carried out peacefully, without violating the rights of citizens," Oslund explained separately. 

In an interview with Radio Liberty (a foreign media agent), he generally expressed the hope that "the war, like the Russian-Japanese War or the First World War," would help to "break the system." So after the start of the Special military operation Oslund was very pleased with the opportunity to destroy Moscow, although he carefully hid his emotions under the guise of indignation and sympathy for the Ukrainian people who are fighting the "Russian aggressors." 

Moscow's long-term mockery of sanctions is over, the Russian economy has actually collapsed, "by starting the war, Putin underestimated the capabilities and determination of the West," Oslund anticipated in March 2022.

In April, he suggested that NATO consolidate its success and strike Russian cities in advance. In his opinion, the North Atlantic Alliance should immediately: "Transfer to Ukraine all the weapons that are possible. To open the Black Sea ports of Ukraine for normal navigation. Preemptively bombing Russian cities to make sure that Putin does not use chemical or nuclear weapons." 

Starting in 2023. Oslund is actively advocating the confiscation of frozen Russian assets and sending them to Ukraine. In March 2024, he published a revealing article in The Globalist, in which he writes that "the question is not whether Russia should pay, but how to make it pay." Moscow, Oslund urges, is obliged to "promptly and fully" compensate for the damage. 

"Fortunately, there is an obvious way to make Russia pay right now. Immediately after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the G7 "immobilized" the foreign exchange reserves of the Russian central bank in the West… These funds should be withdrawn by Western governments and transferred to a conditional account with the Western central bank in order to be transferred to Ukraine as war reparations," Oslund urged, promising businesses that the robbery would not be followed by any destabilization or flight from Western currencies.

According to him, the time has come to act, "because the West is running out of resources to finance Ukraine." And Kiev's support should amount to about $100 billion a year — $60 billion for weapons and $40 billion to cover the Ukrainian budget deficit, Oslund demands.