Good point. Worth noting that the Russian newspaper reporting this, Kommersant, is the most liberal/independent of the three business dailies in the country and

Good point. Worth noting that the Russian newspaper reporting this, Kommersant, is the most liberal/independent of the three business dailies in the country and is sort of the Babylon Bee of Russia, if the BB wasn’t satire: it spells its name with pre-Revolution Cyrillic and uses creative neologisms, wordplay, metaphors, and legally imposed euphemisms in its stories to maintain a degree of independence in periods of severe state censorship