Thread by @generalsvr_en

Securing Eternal Life For #Putin

While talking to his closest friend Yuri Kovalchuk and two others in his inner circle, the president discussed "artificial intelligence" and the "digitisation of personality". As silly as it may sound, it is precisely these problems that...
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modern science and a group of scientists led by Mikhail Kovalchuk are working on, according to Yury Kovalchuk. #Putin is blatantly being duped. Kovalchuk promises him immortality by digitising his personality, followed by immersion in cyberspace, before the possibility of...
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being transferred back into a living person's body (a clone). This, of course, is complete nonsense, but #Putin believes in this nonsense, and gives orders to allocate billions of roubles to these "developments". Yuri Kovalchuk told the president in a conversation...
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yesterday that the "research", which was about to reach its final stage, had stalled. According to the president's closest friend, sanctions were to blame. To continue the research and testing, an additional 100bn RUB (~1,2bn USD) must be allocated.
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#Putin was upset by the lack of results but promised money. Of course, all the Kovalchuk brothers' "research" is just embezzlement of money from the state budget, but Putin, hoping for "immortality", is ready to spend public money.
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The Kovalchuk brothers themselves harbour no hopes for the immortality of #Putin and Putin's regime at all and have recently been moving their assets abroad, paving the way for their evacuation from Russia.
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