And you believe and trust this propaganda piece from the MOSCOW TIMES?
Actually, this “i.e. no expansion of the Russian military” was my comment.
From the article:
Economic Development and Trade Minister Elvira Nabiullina stated clearly that the dominant concern is economic growth. It has slipped from 7 percent a year to 2 percent to 3 percent a year, and the question is whether it will be possible to raise it to 5 percent to 6 percent a year. A broad consensus acknowledged that the main reason for the low growth is the poor business and investment climate, which is a code word for corruption.
The age-old Russian question of “Who is guilty?” attracted no attention because everyone knows who, although few named him. Nor were people interested in the other old Russian question: “What is to be done?” Instead, Kirill Androsov, deputy minister of economic development and trade from 2006 to 2008, talked about how to do it. The cure presupposes a democratic breakthrough leading to a cleanup of top-level corruption, which is the big political, social and economic question for Russia today. But these panels, which were dominated by the country’s establishment, preferred not to delve too deeply into that topic.