In the category of "stories that would trigger a political crisis in a normal country," today we are, of course, reading *Vedomosti*:
How the prosecutor general’s son built a business on contracts with Russian Railways and the Moscow city government. The order book of Igor Chaika’s companies exceeds 300 billion rubles
The talented little son tried his hand at various businesses, but things only really took off once they started working with public budget money. An absolutely priceless quote from the investigation:
Just four years out of university, and he already has 318 billion rubles in contracts from state institutions. And specifically from some of the most corruption-ridden ones—Russian Railways and the Moscow mayor’s office.
No, no, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that his father, the prosecutor general, shields both Russian Railways and the mayor’s office from any investigations. The corruption complaints we ourselves have filed about these outfits—and that were brushed aside—number in the dozens.
The article came out—and silence. No parliamentary inquiries, no hearings, no statements from the Investigative Committee, no talk-show announcements, not even tweets from TV hosts.
Sad.