Steering a tricky path
ONE QUESTION, with two meanings, has bookended Vladimir Putin’s reign: who’s next? As he tamed Russia’s tycoons in the early 2000s, Moscow’s power-brokers wondered whom he would next dispatch to exile or prison. After the dismemberment of Ukraine, the question took on a new connotation: who will be next to suffer Western sanctions? In both cases, a name in the frame has been Mikhail Fridman.
According to a Russian proverb, notes Mr Fridman, you can never be sure you won’t go to prison or be a beggar. Still, he says, he never had an objective reason to fear …read more
Source: The Economist
