Putin raises the bar for repression: his adviser is also arrested

MOSCOW – Nobody is safer in Russia anymore. It is not enough to never have spoken out against the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, nor to have publicly supported it. As the well-known economist and advisor to the Kremlin leader Vladimir Mau, who was placed under house arrest, discovered at his expense. Former colleague of the reformer Egor Gajdar, Mau, 62, is the rector of Ranepa, the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, one of the largest Russian universities and a forge of executives and 46 regional governors, as well as a member of the Presidium of the Council economic, to which Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses.