Shocking news:
Andrei Klepach, the chief economist at Russian state development corporation VEB.RF, was reportedly fired on Aug. 16, a day after Russian media widely circulated his warnings that Russia was losing its economic and technological competition with the West.
I swear when I read this article yesterday I wondered when he’ll fall out of the window. I guess he is lucky!
That’s what we thought about Yevgeny Prigozhin, too, when he made nice with Putin after the attempted coup.
In Putin’s Russia, you don’t jump out of the 40th-story window, the 40th-story window jumps you!
This is the first step to reaching the window. The climb takes a little bit.