Yuri Pronko: "Dry numbers"

"Today the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has revised its forecast for capital outflow from the Russian Federation in 2014. It will amount to a record (there has never been such an outflow in the entire modern history of Russia!) 100 billion, but not rubles. But dollars. Previously, the forecast figure was at 90 billion. Let me remind you that earlier A. Kudrin argued that the outflow of capital from the country could reach an unprecedented level of 150-200 billion!

Let me remind you that the assessment of President Putin’s damage from Ukraine’s entry into the association with the EU is 100 billion rubles, and the outflow of capital from his country over the year is 100 billion dollars. The amounts clearly do not correlate, but what follows is even more interesting!”