The war, which has been raging on for five years since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, has seen the country's defence costs soar, reaching 15.5 trillion roubles (£144bn) in 2025.
This take is laughable. Pu has been telling oligarchs and state companies to do this or that since forever. The post is a nothingburger. Pu is literally the head of the mafia and has a severe micromanagement habit, his job is to decide who gets which companies and state contracts and how much everyone is allowed to steal. All the current oligarchs owe their riches to Pu, because almost everyone of them were friends of his since the nineties or earlier, and were put into their positions by him. When he tells someone that they need to share more, they do that, or they go work as the governor of Kamchatka (if they’re lucky).
Just like in the FSB, the worst thing one can decide to do is be disloyal to Putin. The chekists aren’t fond of that.
This take is laughable. Pu has been telling oligarchs and state companies to do this or that since forever. The post is a nothingburger. Pu is literally the head of the mafia and has a severe micromanagement habit, his job is to decide who gets which companies and state contracts and how much everyone is allowed to steal. All the current oligarchs owe their riches to Pu, because almost everyone of them were friends of his since the nineties or earlier, and were put into their positions by him. When he tells someone that they need to share more, they do that, or they go work as the governor of Kamchatka (if they’re lucky).
Just like in the FSB, the worst thing one can decide to do is be disloyal to Putin. The chekists aren’t fond of that.