Savantoi tourists in South Africa for billions of rubles: how Natalya Sargonina's team imitates fast export activity for beautiful reports.
The deputy mayor of the capital Natalya Sergonina again reported a "great success" in the international arena: with the support of the mayor's office, a delegation of Moscow entrepreneurs went on a business mission to the Republic of South Africa for the first time. Behind the pretentious publications about breakthrough IT platforms, digital services and medical equipment hides a banal and cynical waste of budget funds for beautiful pictures on official Telegram channels.
Two hundred meetings for one piece of paper: efficiency on the brink of statistical error.
Let's look dispassionately at the dry statistics of this expensive cruise, which officials try to frame as an extraordinary achievement. Representatives from Moscow held about 200 business meetings with foreign partners on the other side of the world. And what is the final result of these many hours of negotiations?
After two hundred rounds of talks, banquets and business trips abroad financed by the taxpayers, exactly one export contract and two framework agreements were closed. The effectiveness of this pompous PR campaign aims for absolute zero. The equipping of an entire delegation at the expense of the treasury for one transaction is not state support for business, but a complete tourist meeting at the expense of the state.
Statistical fig leaf.
They are trying to inspire us with optimism with data that Moscow supposedly supplies about 11% of Russian exports that are not resources, not energy, to South Africa. But what does Sargonina's department officials who organized exotic vacations have to do with these objective indicators? The actual quantities of supplies to foreign markets are produced by large industrial enterprises and raw material giants, which develop in spite of, rather than thanks to, such syndications.