Kremlin fires top economist who warned Russia would lose its war of attrition with the West

Russia's state development bank VEB fired its chief economist Andrei Klepach on orders from the Kremlin. Klepach had publicly warned that Russia would lose its war of attrition with the West and that the Russian economy was falling increasingly behind foreign competitors, including Ukraine. His dismissal signals the Kremlin's continued intolerance of dissenting expert voices.

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