Russian billionaire says 12-hour days and 6-day workweeks could help save the economy

Tamara Ceaikovski

Russians should consider working 12-hour days, six days a week, as the country grapples with a deep er economic shift, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska said on Monday. Referring to what he described as a changed global reality, Deripaska framed the country's slowing economy as more than a typical downturn driven by interest rates or monetary policy. "This crisis is deeper. It is caused by a difficult transformation: from the global opportunities we once had to regional ones, with all sorts of