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In Russia, the great purge of the intellectual sphere

2022-07-25T16:30:47.926Z


STORY - The recent arrests show that no liberal voice is immune, including those loyal to the Kremlin.


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Vladimir Maou had however always remained in the nails.

The 62-year-old reformist economist had spent a whole career in the Russian technocratic apparatus, close to the spheres of power.

In 2011, he was even one of the thinking heads of the 10-year economic "great plan" for Russia, shaped in the Kremlin.

The following year, he received from the hands of Vladimir Putin a medal for services rendered to the fatherland, then again in 2017. The two men met again at the end of 2020.

For 20 years, Maou was the rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy, which in 2010 became the "Ranepa", the "official" university of the Russian bureaucracy from which the future civil servants and local rulers of the Russian Federation.

The sudden arrest of the respected Mau, now accused of embezzlement, has therefore, to put it mildly, surprised many in Moscow.

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Source: lefigaro

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