“I agree, we don’t have many resources. More precisely, there is only one and it is related to our national peculiarity: In difficult moments, we know how to buckle down and work harder. And the sooner we ourselves switch to this new schedule – from eight to eight, including Saturday – the faster we will go through this transformation,” suggested the Russian billionaire to his fellow citizens.
“I know several dozen people who, as soon as they started living according to such a schedule in the nineties, never got over it. Well, it will be easier for them than for others,” he adds in his post on Telegram.
Deripaska writes in it that “the world has changed since this year”, and not only for Russia. “This is no longer an economic crisis caused by a strict monetary policy, bank rates and unnecessary strengthening of the ruble by the central bank’s macroeconomics. And it is not just a consequence of how the security forces are destroying legal institutions, which were the basis of investments in the Russian economy, both national and foreign,” writes the oligarch in the indictment of the actions of Russian institutions to date.
“This crisis is deeper. It is caused by a difficult transformation: from the global opportunities we had to the regional ones, with all possible limitations. But this path will still have to be passed, and preferably as quickly as possible,” says the tycoon.
“The soul is obliged to work day and night”
Děripaska supplemented his contribution with a video with a performance by the Soviet actor Mikhail Gluzský. “The soul is obliged to work day and night. Day and night. Harvest it from house to house. Drag it from camp to camp. Through the wasteland, through the fields. Through snowdrifts, over potholes. Don’t let it sleep in bed,” the actor declaims flamingly in the archive footage.
At one time, Deripaska was considered the richest man in Russia, although after the financial crisis in 2008, his fortune dwindled considerably. For example, he is the founder of the production, energy, financial and real estate concern Bazovyj element (Basic Element), he is also, among other things, a minority co-owner of the Austrian construction company Strabag.
He appears on Western sanctions lists with the fact that he helped the Russian military-industrial complex during the invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022. However, Deripaska is also one of the few Russian oligarchs who publicly criticized this war.
