Russia’s cooked books
EVEN by Russian standards, it shows impressive ingenuity. Norilsk Nickel, which owns one of the world's richest mineral deposits, hopes to turn three nuclear submarines (minus their intercontinental ballistic missiles) into freighters, each capable of carrying 12,000 tons of cargo from Russia's icy far north, faster and more reliably than allowed by the current means of transport—clapped-out nuclear ice-breakers.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Russia’s cooked books”
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