Speaker 1: Media.
Speaker 2: Something strange is going on. Another member of the Russian
Speaker 2: elite has been found dead. Reports suggest that he fell
Speaker 2: out of a window, poisoned with mushrooms, died of heart failure,
Speaker 2: died of carbonnoxide poisoning. How comesy are they? Dozens of
Speaker 2: Russian oligachs, politically motivated millionaires have died in the space
Speaker 2: for three years, most of them in suspicious circumstances. Many
Speaker 2: have hidden links to the Kremlin. This is sad Oligach
Speaker 2: Season two, an ongoing investigation into these recently dead of
Speaker 2: Russian power brokers. Sad Oligach is created by me jake
Speaker 2: Hanrahan and my Ukrainian colleague Sergey Slipchenkov. This is a
Speaker 2: H eleven studio and Coolso Media production. July twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Russian financier Georgi Chibisov is getting ready
Speaker 2: for a party on his luxury yacht. At forty four
Speaker 2: years old, He's done a right for himself, to say
Speaker 2: the least. He works as the marketing director of the
Speaker 2: Moscow Stock Exchange. He's been working abroad recently, though mostly
Speaker 2: in London. He's only been back in Russia for a month.
Speaker 2: A man in Georgie's position with his money is likely
Speaker 2: to be riding the seas on a Sunseeker, a very
Speaker 2: common yacht amongst the Russian upper class. The Sunseeker is
Speaker 2: a British made luxury motor powered yacht. The design is streamlined, pointy,
Speaker 2: almost sportslike hard edges smooth. It's thirty meters long and
Speaker 2: has a top speed of around thirty knots. There are
Speaker 2: five cabins, a master suite and room for up to
Speaker 2: five crew members. The main deck has a whole entrance lobby,
Speaker 2: a luxury bar and dining for up to eight people.
Speaker 2: These yachts have more than an average person has in
Speaker 2: their home. Very posh, very elite. On this night, Georgie
Speaker 2: Chibasov is feeling himself. Of course, he's hosting a party
Speaker 2: on his own yacht. It bobs up and down gently
Speaker 2: in the Mosque for River. This river flows through the
Speaker 2: Moscow province and part of the Smolensko Blast in the
Speaker 2: west of the country. It's an important source of Moscow's
Speaker 2: water supply. The yacht is docked in the river for
Speaker 2: a while. After Georgie's recent holidays here, there, and everywhere,
Speaker 2: Georgie's friends and associates get the party started on the yacht.
Speaker 2: There are dozens of people on board. There's music, dancing,
Speaker 2: alcohol seen as there's people from the banking world on board.
Speaker 2: There's also almost definitely cocaine. In the eighties, a report
Speaker 2: written off the back of a drug enforcement operation in
Speaker 2: the US cited that roughly ninety percent of people working
Speaker 2: in the financial district used cocaine. Russia is not much different.
Speaker 2: Little has changed since the eighties. The party is in
Speaker 2: full swing. It's dark at the harbor, but the yacht
Speaker 2: glows like a night light on the river. It's a
Speaker 2: bachelor party, probably hopefully for one of Georgie's friends, as
Speaker 2: he himself is married. At some point in the night,
Speaker 2: Georgie is separated from the crowd on this boat full
Speaker 2: of partygoers. He wanders out into the darkness, maybe for
Speaker 2: a cigarette, who knows. At some point, somehow he falls
Speaker 2: straight off the side of his yacht and plunges into
Speaker 2: the dark water below. It's not a huge drop, maybe
Speaker 2: six or seven meters about twenty three feet. Impact with
Speaker 2: the water from that height would sting a lot, but
Speaker 2: it's highly unlikely you die from that alone. Presumably though
Speaker 2: Georgie had been drinking at the party, perhaps even drunk,
Speaker 2: and the body is filled up with too much alcohol.
Speaker 2: The body doesn't operate properly. It's called motor incoordination, also
Speaker 2: known as being pissed drunk, the limbs don't do what
Speaker 2: the brain wants. If you've ever drank too much, you'll
Speaker 2: know the deal. Georgie is now up to his neck
Speaker 2: in dark water in the middle of the night, having
Speaker 2: drank and partied for hours. He's fully clothed, shoes on,
Speaker 2: kicks in the water, calls for help. The music is playing.
Speaker 2: No one hears. He struggles, tries to swim. He's drank
Speaker 2: too much, though Georgie goes under. The more he kicks
Speaker 2: and fights it, the faster he sinks. He's drowning. Water
Speaker 2: fills his lungs as he can hold his breath not more.
Speaker 2: Before long he needs a watery end, dead, drowned beside
Speaker 2: his own yachts. After an hour or so, people begin
Speaker 2: to notice Georgie's absence. Where is he? But to this
Speaker 2: point the people panic. They search for Georgie. They call
Speaker 2: out his name, they called his phone. Nothing, They can't
Speaker 2: find him because, of course, he's at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the river. Despite the panic, for some reason, the friends
Speaker 2: then don't do much at all. The police are only
Speaker 2: alerted by Georgie's wife several hours later when she gets
Speaker 2: worried that she hasn't heard from him. Of course, she
Speaker 2: can't get hold of him. A day later, this corpse
Speaker 2: is dredged from the mosque of the river. Following that
Speaker 2: the trail goes completely cold. No update in over a year.
Speaker 2: Of course, according to authorities, it was just a random tragedy,
Speaker 2: a simple accidental death. Apparently, well, that was just story one.
Speaker 2: There were very few details on this case. And yet
Speaker 2: somehow all the official stories we've found, in both Russian
Speaker 2: and in English all contradict each other to some degree.
Speaker 2: That is, the small amount of information in each press
Speaker 2: release on this varies to the point of there being
Speaker 2: three different versions of that faithful day when Georgie drowned
Speaker 2: in the Mosqueva. Story two is quite similar, but it
Speaker 2: differs in that it says Georgie was out all night
Speaker 2: partying elsewhere, possibly in the city or at a friend's house.
Speaker 2: According to the alternative information, the yacht wasn't actually Georgie's either,
Speaker 2: it was someone else's. The way he died, though, is
Speaker 2: much the same. He wandered off from the main crowd
Speaker 2: whilst on the yacht and then fell into the water.
Speaker 2: This version, however, says that the worried friends who went
Speaker 2: looking for him are the ones who called the police,
Speaker 2: not Georgie's wife. She was alerted later. Then there's story three.
Speaker 2: This one is quite different. In this third version of events,
Speaker 2: Georgie was not on a yacht specifically, It was apparently
Speaker 2: on a quote ship whilst on holiday. Now I took
Speaker 2: this to mean a cruise ship, and if you fall
Speaker 2: off of a cruise ship, you're looking at a considerably
Speaker 2: higher drop than if you fell from a yacht. The
Speaker 2: story doesn't actually say anything about which ship, where it
Speaker 2: was going, where it had come from, and what happened
Speaker 2: when they found out a holidaymaker had fallen off of it.
Speaker 2: Either way, for the sake of argument, let's just presume
Speaker 2: it was an averaged sized cruise ship. It would have
Speaker 2: been around one thousand feet long, with about fifteen decks
Speaker 2: and space for roughly three thousand passengers. If you fall
Speaker 2: from the main deck of a cruise ship, even an
Speaker 2: average size one, you're looking at a one hundred feet
Speaker 2: drop till you hit the water. You'd probably die on impact.
Speaker 2: From this height, the body falls at around fifty miles
Speaker 2: an hour. When you hit the water's surface, you might
Speaker 2: as well be hitting concrete. The speed and impact are
Speaker 2: likely going to knock you out and then of course
Speaker 2: you drown. If Georgie was on a cruise ship, he
Speaker 2: had no hope whatsoever when he fell. According to this
Speaker 2: series of events, he didn't just slip off of the
Speaker 2: edge dock. He was apparently messing around on a diving platform.
Speaker 2: Now this struck me, so I had to look around,
Speaker 2: and it turns out you cannot actually dock a proper
Speaker 2: cruise ship in the Moskva River. It's not deep enough
Speaker 2: and several places it's far too narrow. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: now it's time for a quick adbreak, all right, Not
Speaker 2: for that, now back to the shore. Still though, I
Speaker 2: wanted to know where this extra diving platform information comes from,
Speaker 2: and it seems to be from the Russian news outlet
Speaker 2: mk U. This is a Moscow based newspaper with a
Speaker 2: circulation of around one million. It's been going it since
Speaker 2: nineteen nineteen and is known for its political and societal
Speaker 2: commentary surprise. It's pro Kremlin pro putin and is owned
Speaker 2: by a man named Pavel Gusev. Gusev has strong ties
Speaker 2: to the Kremlin. He's been a member of the Presidential
Speaker 2: Council for Civil Society and Human Rights of the Russian Federation.
Speaker 2: People appointed to this position on this board are picked
Speaker 2: specifically by Putin himself. Anyway, Pavel Gusev's MKRU says that
Speaker 2: quote one of the vacationers, Georgie, neglected safety rules and apparently,
Speaker 2: according to Newsweek quote, tried to use the diving platform
Speaker 2: alone before falling into the water. No passengers saw what
Speaker 2: happen to Chibisov, as no staff for nearby and the
Speaker 2: captain was driving the yacht. Convenient Emergency services were alerted
Speaker 2: on July twenty seventh to a criminal case of operation
Speaker 2: of water transport. The Western Interregional Investigative Department for Transport
Speaker 2: currently investigating the situation as a potential death by negligence
Speaker 2: through operation of a water transport, which carries a maximum
Speaker 2: penalty of five years imprisonment. Ends quote. Now the ship
Speaker 2: is identified as a yacht, but in this version the
Speaker 2: yacht seems to be one that gives trips up and
Speaker 2: down the river at night so people can party. Every
Speaker 2: big city with a river has these. You pay your money,
Speaker 2: you jump on board the yacht, sales on a circuit,
Speaker 2: you have fun. Personally, I've never been on one. I
Speaker 2: have been invited, but to me it sounded like the
Speaker 2: worst thing on earth. The only detail in this third story,
Speaker 2: which is becoming an increasingly confusion amalgamation of sources I
Speaker 2: know that I find new and noteworthy, is this from
Speaker 2: Mkru quote. The top manager Georgie disappeared on the evening
Speaker 2: of July twenty seventh after falling from a pleasure boat
Speaker 2: while sailing along the Moscow River. According to relatives, he
Speaker 2: wrote a message to his wife and never contacted her again.
Speaker 2: Ends quote. By the way, a pleasure boat is not
Speaker 2: as serious it sounds. It's just a name for the
Speaker 2: party I explained a minute ago. We'll come back to
Speaker 2: this quote about messaging his wife though in a bit so.
Speaker 2: Why the varying series of different stories when it comes
Speaker 2: to this case, well, it seems to be due to
Speaker 2: Russian reporters copying and pasting together different bits of information
Speaker 2: about the Georgie death from here, there and everywhere at
Speaker 2: least that's what Sergei said he felt was happening when
Speaker 2: he was reading it again. Though, this comes back to
Speaker 2: the hurdles we keep facing with each case. There seems
Speaker 2: to be a collective effort in Kremlin backed media to
Speaker 2: report vaguely and contradictory when it comes to this series
Speaker 2: of mysterious, wealthy Russian deaths. In the first series, each
Speaker 2: case had a pretty extensive well of knowledge to tap.
Speaker 2: There were crime scene photos, people we could contact, eyewitnesses,
Speaker 2: quotes from the eyewitnesses, proper statements from the police, all
Speaker 2: of that. But as we've seen with each case in
Speaker 2: season two, there is allmost nothing. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that the Kremlin knows or cares what we're doing, but
Speaker 2: it does seem to me as if there is a
Speaker 2: concerted effort to make sure there is little information going
Speaker 2: out there when it comes to the depth of rich
Speaker 2: Russian power brokers. The information that does go out there
Speaker 2: is very contradictory, and you could easily falsely report the
Speaker 2: wrong situation. I think that is by design. So in
Speaker 2: that case, which story about Georgi Chibasov is the real one? Well,
Speaker 2: this is something we've tried to get to the bottom
Speaker 2: of and as far as I can tell, kind of
Speaker 2: all of them and also none of them. Let me explain.
Speaker 2: So I think we need to jigsaw some of the
Speaker 2: information together here to figure out the most realistic situation
Speaker 2: before we move on to what happened. Remember this is
Speaker 2: just my point of view, having spent years research and
Speaker 2: all of this, but I could of course be wrong.
Speaker 2: We have to take a little bit from story one,
Speaker 2: a pinch of story two, and a dash of story three.
Speaker 2: Here's what I think we get. Georgi Chibasov had only
Speaker 2: been back in Russia for one month, if that, he'd
Speaker 2: spent the past two years in London working away. No
Speaker 2: doubt being home was a cause for extended celebration. On
Speaker 2: the night of his death, he went to his friend's
Speaker 2: bachelor party that was held on one of these pleasure boats.
Speaker 2: These expensive parties on yachts that go up and down
Speaker 2: the river so those who can afford it can feel special.
Speaker 2: In the midst of this party, Georgie went out for
Speaker 2: a sig and, whilst drunk, stumbled over the edge of
Speaker 2: the railings and died in the river. The yacht carried
Speaker 2: on its married way as he drowned to death. Now,
Speaker 2: this could well just be an accident. Of all the
Speaker 2: cases we've been looking at so far in season two,
Speaker 2: this one is most likely a situation where the cigar
Speaker 2: is just a cigar. Still, though, I have a hunch
Speaker 2: that there's more to it. Something that keeps sticking in
Speaker 2: my head is Mkiu's claim that Georgie tried to climb
Speaker 2: up onto the diving platform. He apparently tried to do this,
Speaker 2: presumably whilst drunk in the dark, on his own, whilst
Speaker 2: everyone else partied inside the yacht as it moved along
Speaker 2: the river. That alone seems a pretty weird thing to
Speaker 2: do for a man of forty four years old. Also,
Speaker 2: there's this constant claim that no one saw what happened
Speaker 2: to Georgie. The captain was driving the yacht, the passengers
Speaker 2: were partying, the staff were serving them. Then, how the
Speaker 2: fuck does anybody know that Georgie climbed up onto a
Speaker 2: diving platform and fell off. How cameras maybe, but why
Speaker 2: hasn't anyone reported that? Where are the images? Why wouldn't
Speaker 2: the newspaper mention security footage if there was some. There's
Speaker 2: not even a single screenshot of Georgie on the deck
Speaker 2: of any yacht anywhere. Something doesn't add up here. If
Speaker 2: there was a motive for someone to kill Georgie, it
Speaker 2: could have something to do with his background or his employment.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Surgery and see what he's found. So
Speaker 2: I think really to kind of work out if there
Speaker 2: might be some kind of other element to all of
Speaker 2: this with Georgie, I think we need to look at
Speaker 2: his background. I know, again he's another one who's a
Speaker 2: bit of a ghost, but there's a few things out there,
Speaker 2: whatever you managed to find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean I'm basically looking at his background.
Speaker 1: I guess you can say kind of like work history
Speaker 1: his He doesn't have a LinkedIn or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but a few articles kind of lining it out. So
Speaker 1: basically nineteen ninety nine, it says he started in e commerce.
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's kind of doing everything at that point.
Speaker 1: He's like selling, he's finding places to actually buy the
Speaker 1: stuff to sell, and he's selling it online. It sounds like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nineteen ninety nine, so you know, e
Speaker 1: commerce is kind of just starting. So that's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. Like it's a very like kind of doing things
Speaker 1: on his own, figuring things out in the early two
Speaker 1: thousands is when he joins more kind of bigger places,
Speaker 1: so like there's like these are Russian places, so I
Speaker 1: don't think like you'll know them, but like wiki Mart
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other places that even I haven't
Speaker 1: heard before, basically just online retailers. I guess you can
Speaker 1: kind of think like Amazon kind of places. Maybe eBay.
Speaker 1: I guess he's say hustling selling different things. Doesn't specify
Speaker 1: like what exactly he's selling, but at some point, and
Speaker 1: like late two thousands, he figures out that he likes marketing.
Speaker 1: That's what he focuses on, and that's what he works on.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him have any specific like degrees or anything.
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like he's more like self taught. Again,
Speaker 1: it's very early Internet kind of getting his way around it.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's like an early adopter, you know,
Speaker 1: doing e commerce in ninety nine.
Speaker 2: It was pure wild West back then. I remember even
Speaker 2: reading in the newspaper as a kid at the time
Speaker 2: about people that had made millions just on eBay. I
Speaker 2: remember this one guy that basically bought a load of
Speaker 2: very cheap camping gear from China through a logo on
Speaker 2: some of it, and then was just selling on eBay
Speaker 2: for like double the prize and just making a fortune.
Speaker 2: That time was crazy, like people would just making money
Speaker 2: left and right in the e commerce world. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: now it's time at break. Oh not for that, now
Speaker 2: back to the shore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. That's the thing that there is no degree
Speaker 1: at that point, especially right for this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like you said, as the world West that you're
Speaker 1: just kind of figuring it out. And I'm sure at
Speaker 1: that time, you know, having any kind of experience like
Speaker 1: this would probably you know, get you a pretty good
Speaker 1: job if you can help people figure this out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know, he kind of figured his
Speaker 1: own way out. He's making it pretty well. There's like
Speaker 1: a whole list of companies that he worked at. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he made his way up, like started as
Speaker 1: a marketer and then eventually he was like leading departments,
Speaker 1: kind of being director of this and that, communications marketing
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Eventually he makes his way to a
Speaker 1: UK based company it's called Wheelie. It's interesting because none
Speaker 1: of the Russian articles, I would say like ninety percent
Speaker 1: of them don't even mention him working here. Most of
Speaker 1: them would say he was in the UK for the
Speaker 1: past two years, which that would have been like so
Speaker 1: he passed away in July twenty twenty four. Using their timeframe,
Speaker 1: it's like twenty twenty two, twenty three years in the UK,
Speaker 1: London specifically, And they don't don't say anything other than
Speaker 1: he's kind of finishing his business or whatever, just very
Speaker 1: vague stuff, which I found kind of interesting that they
Speaker 1: don't really mention him working here. There was like one
Speaker 1: article that just says, yeah, he was a marketer for Wheely.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where I started. But the reason I
Speaker 1: could confirm he was at Wheeley and the actual timeline,
Speaker 1: which is he worked there from twenty twenty two until
Speaker 1: May twenty twenty four, was from his own telegram page,
Speaker 1: because other than that, I couldn't find it anywhere else.
Speaker 1: He had his own telegram channel where he could say
Speaker 1: was being a bit of like an influencer, kind of like, oh, guys,
Speaker 1: here's what you do for marketing, like kind of posting
Speaker 1: different strategies and goals and things he saw that were
Speaker 1: interesting to him, and like different marketing campaigns he liked.
Speaker 1: Kind of more like a LinkedIn influencer.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, that like like hustle bro business bro
Speaker 2: vibe to it, right, Like he's kind of I mean
Speaker 2: he's forty four. He's not exactly like old or anything yet,
Speaker 2: but he was in that kind of he grew up
Speaker 2: in that weird era. So yeah, I had a look
Speaker 2: at the telegram and he's really like he's just trying
Speaker 2: to be like that guy online, like hey, like stick
Speaker 2: with me, I'll I'll tell you how to make money.
Speaker 2: And if for anyone that doesn't know, like this, WHEELI
Speaker 2: is a strange business. It's kind of like luxury chauffeurs,
Speaker 2: like it's it's kind of it's called trusted chauffeurs for
Speaker 2: discerning travelers. It's kind of like again, I think for
Speaker 2: people maybe that perhaps don't have the money they want
Speaker 2: people to think they have. That's the vibe. Yet, And
Speaker 2: you can pay to basically be driven around or delivered
Speaker 2: somewhere virus chauffeur in a very nice car that's not
Speaker 2: actually yours. But again, it is interesting that apparently he
Speaker 2: worked in London doing this, but there's not really any
Speaker 2: trace of that. I actually reached out to them, got
Speaker 2: absolutely nothing, And yeah, it's just like he was just
Speaker 2: he was tying up business in London, like what like
Speaker 2: very weird and then to go from that to come
Speaker 2: to Russia for a month. But he works as the
Speaker 2: marketing stock exchange in Moscow, Like I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: it's quite there's quite a lot going on here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not just coming in as a marketer.
Speaker 1: From what I could tell, they don't men, they didn't
Speaker 1: like not all sources mentioned his exact titles. You would
Speaker 1: just say, yeah, like marketing at the stock exchange, but
Speaker 1: multiple sources say director, so you know, not just not
Speaker 1: just like some senior I don't know, associate or something like.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's kind of leading it and the
Speaker 1: Moscow Stock Exchange, you know, pretty big deal. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like like you said, he comes here in June, so
Speaker 1: just a month before his death June twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: he comes to Moscow like he moves there because he
Speaker 1: was he was permanently living in the UK for two years.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like traveling back and forth or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Like he he was. He was like there for two
Speaker 1: years and he moves back, he moves back to Russia.
Speaker 1: He's in Moscow for a month. I guess two months
Speaker 1: because his death was closer to the end of July.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so two months, and yeah, he passes away
Speaker 1: and that that's pretty much it. Like there's not much
Speaker 1: not much in between it like there's not much time
Speaker 1: in between two for anything to happen.
Speaker 2: Really, So, Georgie worked for a short time before his
Speaker 2: death as the marketing director for the Moscow Stock Exchange,
Speaker 2: colloquially known as MOX. This is a very big role
Speaker 2: with a lot of responsibility, so I wondered could his
Speaker 2: workplace shed some light on Georgie's fate. First, I wanted
Speaker 2: to take a look at potential corruption within the marketing
Speaker 2: department at MOX, specifically, as we know, whenever there's corruption
Speaker 2: in Russia, there are soon bodies and what do you know,
Speaker 2: the MOX marketing people have been up to know good.
Speaker 2: There are several allegations that the press service at the
Speaker 2: Stock Exchange have been selling desirable coverage to help businesses
Speaker 2: with investments. This is illegal. There are whispers that they've
Speaker 2: been taking bribes to change the coverage to assist in
Speaker 2: a form of insider trading. Nancy Pelosi would absolutely love
Speaker 2: this Allegedly, the corruption goes deeper. It's said that people
Speaker 2: at the Moek's marketing department have been taking payment in
Speaker 2: an agreement that they'll spin financial news to assist traders
Speaker 2: who want to manipulate the market, specifically tamping down bad
Speaker 2: news long enough to allow investors to get themselves out
Speaker 2: of a bag hole. So I think you have to ask,
Speaker 2: could Georgie have come into a corrupt department and been
Speaker 2: taken out for refusing to play ball? Maybe, but honestly
Speaker 2: I think it's unlikely. Two months is hardly enough time
Speaker 2: for heavies to lean on a man who's just started
Speaker 2: at his new role. What I find more interesting is
Speaker 2: Georgie's time in London. He left Russia to go work
Speaker 2: in the UK just around the time that Russia launched
Speaker 2: the full scale invasion of Ukraine. As far as we
Speaker 2: can see, Georgie never said anything publicly had on about
Speaker 2: the war. What we did find was an indirect comment
Speaker 2: about how it's affecting the markets. This was twenty four
Speaker 2: hours before he died, so the last post was on
Speaker 2: Friday July twenty sixth, or a day before he died,
Speaker 2: two days before his body was found he's discussing the
Speaker 2: interest rate increase by the Bank of Russia from sixteen
Speaker 2: to eighteen percent, and he says here quote, you can
Speaker 2: consider the news in one line, we are waiting for
Speaker 2: new proposals for deposits from banks, and if you want
Speaker 2: to take out a law or a mortgage, then my condolences.
Speaker 2: So what's he what's he saying that. He's basically saying, like,
Speaker 2: this is a bad mood for the customers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's basically saying, as interest rate goes up, loans
Speaker 1: are essentially more expensive for you, or you might just
Speaker 1: not even get approved for it. He's basically saying like,
Speaker 1: if you were looking to take out a loan, be
Speaker 1: it for a car, you know, a house, whatever, maybe business,
Speaker 1: he's basically saying good luck in a like a pessimistic way,
Speaker 1: like it's not looking good for you. It's going to
Speaker 1: be extremely expensive to the point of it might not
Speaker 1: even be worth to take out this loan. Right, So
Speaker 1: he's kind of saying, you know, the economy is not
Speaker 1: looking good. He doesn't say like, oh, everything's horrible, but
Speaker 1: the whole like my condolences, is very clearly saying like
Speaker 1: you're kind of screwed. You know, you have news outlets
Speaker 1: dedicated to just following the markets because they predict the
Speaker 1: economy and stuff. So for the Mosco of Stock Exchange too,
Speaker 1: you know, for the director of marketing to make those comments,
Speaker 1: that's it's a pretty big deal, you know that. Imagine
Speaker 1: if like prime minister or something, or a minister of
Speaker 1: finance came out and was like, oh, you guys are fucked.
Speaker 2: In Russia Moscow specifically, is this enough to get perhaps
Speaker 2: pushed off of a boat and drowned to death? Who knows,
Speaker 2: but I think this, coupled with whatever Georgia Chibisov was
Speaker 2: up to in London, could be was he maybe seen
Speaker 2: as a traitor for leaving the country to work for
Speaker 2: the enemy When Putin ultra nationalism is at an all
Speaker 2: time high. Here's what Putin said on the sixteenth of
Speaker 2: March twenty twenty two, when addressing Russians who'd left the
Speaker 2: country or have voiced opposition against the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: He said, quote, the Russian people will always be able
Speaker 2: to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors, and will
Speaker 2: simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally landed
Speaker 2: in their mouths, spit them out on the pavement. End quote.
Speaker 2: Remember there are no witnesses as to how Georgie died.
Speaker 2: The captain of the boat didn't see, the passengers didn't see,
Speaker 2: the staff didn't see. And yet still a newspaper close
Speaker 2: to the Kremlin explained what happened with no evidence whatsoever,
Speaker 2: no source, nothing. You've been listening to sad oligay At
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