We haven’t gotten off yet, but we’re already getting off.

I came across an amusing interview with S. Ivanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government. It was from 2007, seven years ago.

Very useful reading in the context of the grim charts showing the Russian ruble’s total dependence on the price of oil.

Let’s not even talk about 15 years in power, but even over the past seven years, these people have done nothing to develop the country. Absolutely nothing. Remarkable. Well, in Ivanov’s case, about the only thing they did was put their own children in charge of state banks.