Karina Orlova: The ’emperor’ has no clothes
A sanctioned friend of Vladimir Putin, the businessman Arkady Rotenberg, has frozen construction on the Kerch channel bridge, due to a lack of financing. Forbes Russia reports the contracting company, Rotenberg's Stroygazmontazh, did not receive a scheduled money transfer from the budget and doesn't have the capital to continue constructing the bridge that would connect annexed Crimea to its new homeland’s terra firma.