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Andrey Klepach, Russia’s former chief economist at VEB, has been abruptly ousted after delivering a blunt warning about the war’s economic toll — a speech that now appears to have cost him his job. In it, he openly criticized Russia’s lagging tech and economic competitiveness, predicted no victory in a prolonged war amid Western aid to Ukraine, and warned of looming social unrest. His sobering analysis — comparing the conflict’s duration to the Great Patriotic War and highlighting sanctions, infrastructure strikes, and soaring interest rates — exposed deep internal dissent and underscored the mounting pressure on Russia’s leadership. A replacement is reportedly imminent.

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