A short but excellent note on the Forbes website. Just the thing. Chronicles of modernization: *MIPIM, the real estate exhibition in Cannes, is held every year in March. The tourist season has not yet begun, but the forecast for March 16, the opening day of the exhibition, is +17°C during the day and clear skies. ... Of the 940 registered participants from our country, 194 are representatives of local and public authorities. Developers account for only 188. That is, if you use the search function on the exhibition’s official website. But if you manually review all registered participants, the number of officials rises to 312. A third of the Russians arriving on planes landing at nearby Nice airport will be flying to the south of France at the expense of budgets at various levels. ... The delegation from the Ministry of Economic Development, headed by Elvira Nabiullina, numbers 86 people; the delegation from Krasnodar Krai (a region in southern Russia) numbers 70. ... Germany will send 2,755 people to Cannes, including 98 officials. Italy will send 547, including 62 government representatives. *////////
Let’s do the math, dear moles. The total number of employees at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade is 2,089 people. 1% = 20.89 86 people = 4.11% In other words, 4.11% of the employees of Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development have nothing more important to do than take a trip to Cannes. I’m not too lazy to send an inquiry to Nabiullina. I’ll ask her to explain why such an enormous delegation is needed, what its members were doing in Cannes in the spring, and what results were achieved. I’ll post the reply for everyone to see. I hope that, as an honest person, she will answer plainly and directly: *Dear Alexei, the fact that you ask such foolish questions shows that you do not understand how well a March Mediterranean tan suits the pale skin of officials worn out by exhausting work. *We are waiting for the construction of the Russian Silicon Valley. Whether you want to or not, we will have to learn from the working people of California.