Putin will destroy Russia. Let him keep digging
During a public meeting with Putin, Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of Russia's State Duma, seriously recounted a fake news story from a Croatian satirical magazine about an AI minister arrested for corruption in Albania
The speaker, known mostly for his support of the singer Shaman, somehow didn't even consider that it's impossible to arrest artificial intelligence.
But that's not even the point. We often talk about problems in Ukraine's public administration – and rightly criticize the current situation. But just look at how Russia's public administration has degraded under Putin. It's not just that the fourth person in the state is an idiot, unable to understand that such news shouldn't be told to the president on camera.
"This means that everyone around is an idiot. That there is no fact-checking service, no reference department, that the speaker is not prepared for a meeting with the country's president, who alone decides the fate of all officials."
And believe me, as someone who worked in the Russian parliament for decades – it was never like this. And that's why I am very pleased with what I see.
He will ruin it after all. Let him dig deeper.
About the author. Vitaly Portnikov, journalist, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
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