Quote of Note | Gary Shteyngart

“…Snob [is] an international Russian-language glossy that’s lavishly funded by the mineral wealth of Mikhail Prokhorov. For those who haven’t seen him breakfasting alongside Jay-Z and New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Prokhorov is one of Russia’s tallest (six foot eight) and more progressive oligarchs, the 32nd-richest man in the world and owner of New Jersey Nets (no one’s perfect). Prokhorov has been critical of the country’s sham democracy, but his criticism has been strategic and intermittent–he is unlikely to spend his next 10 years in a frozen labor camp like fellow oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who didn’t quite know when to shut up.