https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Starikov is a best selling author that mixes truth and fiction. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/hitler-was-an-anglo-american-stooge-the-tall-tales-in-a-moscow-bookshop
You may reed more at his website https://nstarikov.ru/ and http://lit.md/nstarikov.htm (in Russian) one of his books is avaiable in an English version http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia’s_freedom.pdf ( 304 pages) He is denying the content of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact and have a very distorted view of the history of other items. His recipe for “Nationalization of the Ruble” A separate domestic currency and a currency for foreign trade, has been tried during the Soviet days in many countries and we know the outcome of that.
To understand what is happening in Russia it is good to read this type of strange views about the world as Russia is filled with conspiracy ideas.
Starikov is just another jerk. As for Mr. Sivkov, though, is a certified auditor and an author of 70 books on accounting and taxation.
The question is, what's his FR nick?