Thread by @Mylovanov

The IMF is set to resume missions with Russia from September 16.

This move, the first of its kind among international organizations, signals that the IMF prioritizes financial relations over moral accountability.

By doing so, it undermines international efforts to pressure and isolate Russia, effectively normalizing a status quo where Russia can commit war crimes, bomb cities, and wage war without consequence.

For the IMF, financial stability appears to outweigh the need for justice.

This will be the first official mission to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

The mission will begin online on September 16, 2024, and continue with a visit to Moscow until October 1, 2024 2/

The IMF’s last mission to Russia took place in November 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic

Russia was excluded from IMF missions in 2022-2023 due to its invasion in Ukraine

But I guess the invasion is now “over” at least in the minds of those people at the IMF 3/

The mission will be led by Jacques Miniane, an Argentinian IMF official

Frankly, I don’t know how I can even talk to those people at the IMF. The institution has lost all respect in my eyes 4/

Western nations considered expelling Russia from the IMF after the Ukraine invasion, but this was opposed by other members like China and India

Now, apparently everything is back to normal.

This is how dictators win. Watch history unfold before your eyes. 5/

But this is the best: Aleksei Mozhin, Russia’s IMF executive director since 1992, will step down on November 1, 2024, and will be replaced by Ksenia Yudaeva, a central banker under U.S. sanctions since April 2022 6X