Soon, the meme "a man resembling the prosecutor general" will be joined by a new one: "a man with the surname Chaika."

That is exactly how the newspaper *Vedomosti* refers today to a certain “A.Yu. Chaika,” whose acquisition of Russia’s largest salt mine, the Tyretsky deposit, has been approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Anyone who has seen our film and read our investigation needs no guesswork to understand that this is the very same Chaika.

He is the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and we have described in detail how he carried out the hostile takeover of the salt mine.

Our entrepreneur from the prosecutor’s office is building a salt monopoly. It is a fine monopoly, better than an oil one—after all, you cannot do without salt. A source of money for a carefree life in Switzerland will keep working flawlessly.

On this occasion, I went to Wikipedia to read the article “Salt Riot” (a 1648 uprising in Moscow over a salt tax) and was once again struck by how little we have moved on from those times.

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