There. This Vedomosti article is exactly everything we needed to know about politics and the economy in Russia. Here are the answers to the questions: will the country emerge from the crisis; will they stop terrorizing business; what are the main paths to modernization (a shout-out to Marina Litvinovich); will we defeat corruption; will we rise from our knees; what will become of the Motherland and of us. For example, VTB president Andrei Kostin wears a Patek Philippe Sky Moon, priced in the catalog at $240,800. First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Ulyukayev wears a Patek Philippe Chronograph Annual Calendar ref. 5960 worth $78,800, while Transport Minister Igor Levitin has a Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar ref. 5159 for $74,800. Sergei Naryshkin, head of the presidential administration, wears a more modest Patek Philippe — for $29,700 — and Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, has a watch of the same brand for $16,100. Another popular brand is Breguet. President Dmitry Medvedev wears a Breguet Classique Moon Phase, which costs $32,200. The Breguet watches worn by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Sberbank head German Gref are half the price of the president’s. According to Wristwatch, Kudrin’s watch costs $14,900 and Gref’s $14,200. The most expensive watch of this brand seen in public was worn by Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexei Miller — on his wrist was a Breguet Classique Grande Complication Tourbillon priced at $112,100. ... The most expensive watch among those Vedomosti managed to photograph belongs to Vladimir Resin, head of Moscow’s construction complex and deputy mayor of Moscow. On his wrist is a DeWitt La Pressy Grande Complication. An employee of the manufacturer, who identified the watch from the photo, says it costs 1,044,800 Swiss francs (before tax). Artyakov also has a DeWitt Academia Tourbillon Differentiel in rose gold, but it is cheaper than Resin’s — 225,000 Swiss francs (before tax). ... Resin also has at least one more horological rarity — a GreubelForsey Double Tourbillon 30° (priced at $360,000 in a white-gold case or $425,000 in a platinum case, according to the 2008 Wristwatch Annual). On the wrist of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is a Bovet watch. The company’s office said it was a Fleurier Minute Repeater model in 18-karat white gold, but did not name the price. In the opinion of Alexander Vetrov, editor-in-chief of the magazine Watches, the retail price of this model in America could be around $300,000. Might it be time, after all, to start torturing and hanging / hanging and torturing?