"I believe Russia will not fall apart, but I am almost certain that we will arrive at a social crisis," Andrei Klepach, the chief economist of VEB.RF, was quoted as saying.

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.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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!