I love Minister Ulyukayev’s interviews; they’re usually built around the barely disguised idea that “everyone in the government and the Kremlin is an incurable idiot.”
And the best part of the interview is, without a doubt, this:
He probably did something like this at that moment:
By the way, regarding the “Rosneft trick,” here is a translation (from the Financial Times) of a good article by Guriev.