
Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day: funny money kills people

Quote of the day, from Elena Panfilova, the Moscow head of Transparency International, on élite Russian money stashed in Europe:
“The missing money means schools not funded properly, hospitals not built. For Russian people it’s not funny money, it’s literally killing them.”
More quotations here.
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