I kept looking for a pony in this pile, but I didn't find one. No new facts, ending with a call to, well... non-action or at least no mentioned action, just a h

I kept looking for a pony in this pile, but I didn't find one. No new facts, ending with a call to, well... non-action or at least no mentioned action, just a hollow call. I can't find the citation, but I've read a much better article this week that pointed out that 75% of Russian GNP is now government authored; that just doesn't fit the kleptocracy narrative of an economy being handed to a private mafia. (Up from less than 40% a decade or more ago.) Which directly contradicts the standard narrative echoed by this fluff article, of private ownership run wild, sucking all the economic activity away from the state toward individual owners. This data point suggests a very different story: that a concerted effort by a group - not a single individual - is being made to reconstruct a Soviet Union 2.0 that works somewhat better than Communism 1.0 and isn't visibly tied to Marxist ideals - communism with lowered expectations, as it were.