To "save" the Russian economy: Deripaska proposes a 12-hour working day and a working Saturday in Russia

To “save” the Russian economy: Deripaska urged Russians to work 12 hours six days a week

Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska proposed sharply tightening the labor regime in Russia: switching to a schedule from 08:00 to 20:00 and making Saturday a working day as well. He voiced this idea as an alleged anti-crisis measure intended to help the Russian economy weather a new wave of shocks. This was reported by The Moscow Times, NV and other media that relayed his statement from Telegram.

According to Deripaska, the country has a limited resource, and he named society’s ability to quickly mobilize in hard times as the main one. In his view, the sooner RF switches to the “from eight to eight” regime, including Saturday, the faster the economic transformation will proceed.

The businessman claims that current problems differ from previous crises that were linked only to monetary policy or ruble fluctuations. He believes that this time it’s about much deeper changes — a shift from “global opportunities” to a more limited, regionalized economic model that faces an increasing number of barriers.

In fact, Deripaska openly suggests that Russians pay with their time and exhaustion for the failures of a system that the Russian authorities themselves have driven into sanctions, war and international isolation. Against the backdrop of talks about “adaptation”, this looks like yet another admission: the aggressor’s economy is increasingly struggling under the strain, and the solution is increasingly sought not in modernization but in simply squeezing people. This has already caused a wide resonance in the media, and in the Russian information space such statements are directly linked to the deteriorating economic situation.

• Previously we wrote:
• Russian ports on the Baltic stopped loading oil due to attacks by Ukrainian drones
• “Rusal”, the former owner of MGZ, reported a loss of $455 million
• The US allowed the purchase of Russian oil and oil products already on tankers for 30 days
• The budget gap has reached the heart of the RF: Moscow is cutting, regions are crumbling
• Sanctions are squeezing: RF risks sharply curtailing oil production due to overfilled storage