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Audio quote from German Gref's speech during a moderated session at the 2012 St. Petersburg Economic Forum

Subsequently, in RIA Novosti, Gref tried to disavow his quote, explaining that not everyone understood his joke.

MOSCOW, June 26 - RIA Novosti. Statements about democracy by the head of Sberbank German Gref, who moderated one of the sessions of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, caused a storm of indignation in the blogosphere - not all bloggers were able to appreciate the dark humor of the state banker.

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Many took at face value some of the phrases of the session leader, who was trying to provoke the discussion participants into frank statements. “You are saying terrible things. You are proposing to transfer power virtually into the hands of the population... Any mass government implies an element of manipulation,” Gref egged on his opponents, for which he received such epithets as “cynic” and “shameless dropout.”

“Honestly, when I learned what profound conclusions some Internet thinkers made from my jokes during our session, I laughed heartily,” Gref said.