Everyone laughed at both the photo and the caption, but really—there he is, the Russian investor. In all his glory, exactly as he is. A typical hero of Putinomics.

From the age of 24, the son of the Prosecutor General has "won" so many government contracts that no one can even calculate the total amount—210 billion rubles from Russian Railways (RZD) alone.

We get the contract for 4 rubles, then subcontract it out to the people who will actually do the work for 2 rubles. "That 2 percent is what I live on" (quote).

And now ministers—in this case, the agriculture minister of the Moscow region—are escorting this Russian investor around foreign trade fairs so he can decide where to invest the money that has just been siphoned out of the budget.

All you can do is shrug when you hear the endless complaints from businesspeople that it's impossible to work: stop whining and take a lesson from the Russian investor!

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