In front of the counters of the banks, the lines are longer than usual, the Russians trying to withdraw their savings. Moscow, February 27, 2022.
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“You have to read between the lines… The oligarchs are, for once, as worried as the grassroots Russians!” This European businessman in Moscow, reduced de facto to quasi-technical unemployment by Western sanctions against the Russian economy, is surprised by the implicit support of two famous billionaires in the camp of opponents of the war in Ukraine.
“While a solution seems awfully far away, I can only join those who ardently wish that the bloodshed would stop,” Mikhail Fridman, boss of the powerful private bank Alfa, wrote in a public letter first. Oleg Deripaska, aluminum tycoon, continued, calling on Telegram for the talks to start “as soon as possible because peace is very important”. Rare audacity.
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