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#wildberries, #russia's #amazon, is droned to ruins

#ukraine is strangling russia's #economy

Andrei Klepach:

'Russia was “falling behind” China and the US and “in some respects Ukraine”… a “social crisis” would erupt “when no one particularly expects it… We will not win this competition in a war of attrition with Ukraine… We have an illusion that everything will collapse there… it won’t”'

and… he's fired

without dissent the folly of the echo chamber means failure

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/andrei-klepach-russian-banker-fired-warning-economy

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Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy
Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’

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Andrei Klepach in June 2022. He was fired days after Russian media reported on a scathing speech he had given in May this year. Photograph: Anton Vaganov/Reuters