He basically demonstrated his total incompetency in Russia, by legalizing all the property that the communist leaders stole as basically their property through his auctions (in which, of course, the top government officials ‘legally’ got all the wealth because having stolen money before, thus they were the only ones who had money to participate–result nationalists who were all former military paying lip service to capitalism while in the present nationalizing capital from opponents).
He is well known, now, for his через жопу thinking about Africa, that is, every solution he suggests is technocratic government socialism.
His behavior discredits himself, but not mainstream media (with the exception of Stossel), since they know nothing about economics and consider the above to be his ‘merits’.