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It’s quite normal because it’s the same few people controlling the state, the industry and the state-owned banks that will nominally pay for everything. Hence they know that even if it proves to be an absolute dog (or not) the Russian state can be made to conveniently pick up the tab if required. Indeed the exercise, even if it ends up not being especially technically or commercially successful (and not saying it won’t be) will still serve an important purpose of spreading out payments to those individuals making these decisions and their clients (indeed may have the “happy” effect of extending or at least continuing to lubricate this circle of endemic corruption out into the very few remaining client states of Russia).Unfortunately this is a pattern that appears to impact all current Russian “commercial” or pseudo-commercial projects and the wider Russian state as a whole.
It’s quite normal because it’s the same few people controlling the state, the industry and the state-owned banks that will nominally pay for everything. Hence they know that even if it proves to be an absolute dog (or not) the Russian state can be made to conveniently pick up the tab if required. Indeed the exercise, even if it ends up not being especially technically or commercially successful (and not saying it won’t be) will still serve an important purpose of spreading out payments to those individuals making these decisions and their clients (indeed may have the “happy” effect of extending or at least continuing to lubricate this circle of endemic corruption out into the very few remaining client states of Russia).
Unfortunately this is a pattern that appears to impact all current Russian “commercial” or pseudo-commercial projects and the wider Russian state as a whole.
