I’m walking down the street, and here’s what I’m thinking about. Senator Klishas responded to our investigation yesterday: “Ha-ha. Yes, I have everything Navalny talks about. And much more. The ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) found 5 pairs of watches worth 163 million rubles? I actually have 32 pairs of watches; they’re kept here in my office at the Federation Council, in a safe. I have legal income, and I’ve paid my taxes.” That’s exactly how he answered — you can look it up in the press. Basically: why are you poking around? I actually own watches worth a billion rubles, and I don’t see any problem with that. I’m not even going to get into how Senator Klishas made his money — he stole Norilsk Nickel from all of us, and the oligarchs who got that company paid him generously. I mean something else. It’s impossible to imagine that in the Senate of the richest country in the world — the United States — there’d be some guy sitting there wearing a watch worth several hundred thousand dollars. But in poor Russia, that’s treated as perfectly normal. Just a few days ago, at Putin’s press conference, people were asking him on national television to help — they needed to transport a sick child from Irkutsk to Moscow. What does that mean? It means poverty. All of Russia’s wealth has ended up on the wrists of oligarchs and senators. And besides, you’d have to be seriously sick in the head to buy yourself SEVERAL watches that expensive. Got a lot of money? Fine, buy one. But when you’ve bought 32 pairs, you belong in a mental institution, not in the Senate. #walking_and_thinking