Well, you gotta keep the Muscovites happy to keep them from googling what the conscripts are doing in Ukraine.

And you've gotta keep the dictator's ego inflated with something. Military victories aren't on the table, so that leaves grand infrastructure projects. Nothing too major, we're talking city-level upgrades here, war economy and all.

Finally, whatever funds the state has left need to keep flowing towards people who wield the power. Not everyone's wife owns an oil refinery, you know. Some people have to make do with construction kickbacks.

Kudos to Moscow's mayor for killing three birds with one drone.

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In other news, what is this zero-information panegyric doing on HN?