[HN Gopher] Moscow Exchange Indices - 24 February 2022
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       Moscow Exchange Indices - 24 February 2022
        
       Author : ushakov
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-02-24 14:35 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | noduerme wrote:
       | Don't worry... Putin made a billion or two shorting it. Very
       | patriotic.
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       | You know what's most scary? He's not afraid of his business
       | associates anymore. It means he might be close to death.
        
         | alimov wrote:
         | Who are his business associates?
        
         | zeruch wrote:
         | I've actually wondered if this whole gambit of his is a last
         | ditch "legacy" hail Mary pass, because he's nearing some
         | personal or administrative fin de ciecle (or both); whether
         | because of his own mortality and/or because the regime is,
         | after decades of perpetual crisis, now exhausted and running
         | out of ways to otherwise scare the markets into sustaining him,
         | he's now going back to the 80s for inspiration. Whether the
         | Ukraine turns into Afghanistan part II is yet to be seen, but
         | there are certainly enough folks still alive from the tail end
         | of the USSR (who are not part of Russia) to recall that period,
         | and want no part of it.
         | 
         | The Baltics seem to be the first to start really firing off the
         | klaxons.
         | 
         | I suspect (or at least have seen no evidence to the contrary)
         | that Putin has set up no real successor to him, so most likely
         | if he does expire, Russia will yet again drop vertically into
         | total chaos.
        
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