Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform. So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction,

Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform. So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction, latin `a` instead of cyrillic `а`) to avoid undesired competitors from entering those biddings and lowering the purchase prices (and not paying kickbacks, obviously). https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html