When you looked at the multi-million-ruble jewelry worn by Moscow City Hall employees, you were probably saying to yourself, "Good Lord, where did they get that kind of money?"
Well, RBC answers exactly that in its investigation, "Who Profits from Repairing Moscow’s Roads."
And yet we’re surprised that Rakovа has a jewelry set worth 8 million rubles (about $88,000). What should really surprise us is that it doesn’t cost 18 million, given schemes like these.
It has to be admitted that Moscow City Hall is behaving with extreme rationality: it is practically the only region left with a lot of money, and as long as there’s war, sanctions, Russia supposedly surrounded by enemies, and all the other delights that let officials steal as much as they want, they are making full use of the opportunity. They’ve even started relaying the so-called "Sobyanin tiles" (the paving tiles widely associated with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin) for a second time already.
And here’s the funniest part of the RBC article. A shout-out to all Muscovites cursing up a storm as they look at torn-up roads and this absurd business of replacing curbs:
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