On Monday, the outlet posted an image of the document, in which Ilyukhina described the challenges Gazprom faced. In a call for “cost optimization at all levels of management,” she said the company needed to cut duplicate functions and bureaucracy.
Ilyukhina said that over the past 20 years, staff numbers had risen to create a payroll of 50 billion rubles ($485 million) and that “funds from cutting labor costs and social benefits” would be redirected to increasing “the motivation and development of staff,” pending an audit by February 15.
But in like manner, over many months we have bee informed that 1) Russia is weakening into collapse, and 2) Russia is ready to conquer all of Europe.
Somehow, it would be interesting that dueling and opposite narratives could settle into some kind of "we're on the same page" consistency.