A former German chancellor's Russian retirement, now with a supermarket board seat

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder has visited a Moscow supermarket in his new role on the company's supervisory board, Deutsche Welle reports — the latest Russian employer in a post-office career that DW notes has been marked by Russian retirement stipends and the scandal attached to them.

The reporting's judgment is packed into one line: he is no stranger to either the paycheques or the outrage. What would have been a career-ending curiosity for most politicians has instead become a genre.