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Если че все эти РАЗОБЛАЧЕНИЯ Собчак пока работают НА ее репутацию. Человек в ультраопасной конъюнктуре каждый раз рискуя и собой, и командой — нарушает заданную цензуру и постоянно спорит с начальством о том, что плохо врать/молчать и тд. Хотя НИКАКИХ логичных экономических причин этого делать нет. А если кто-то думал, что это работает как то иначе, у вас социальный интеллект в классе шестом застрял

A lot of people are jumping down the rabbit hole on this story. To be clear the correspondence that took this interview, Arkady Ostrovsky, is one of the few correspondence on the Russia beat that actually knows Russia - witg all its nuance as he was there in 90s as a cub reporter. He has been covering it for decades - unlike the majority of people writing about Russia today. He’s also a fluent Russian speaker being of Russian extraction himself. He in no way pandas to the Kremlin. In fact, I would categorise him as one of the bigger Russia Hawks in the professional Russia media Corps Secondly, it’s not fair to categorise Melnichenko as an oligarch. That term is supposed to be reserved for those Russian businessman with close ties to the kremlin. If you actually read the piece, you can see that Melnichenko went out of his way to avoid ties to the government. He never benefited from any of the scans such as the loans for shares deal in 1995 although he had the money then to participate if he wanted to Although thanks to his association with. Biz man Mamut he knew everybody. But that’s how you have to work in Russia – the elite levels of government and business is a village. Read Arkards account of when melichenko met putin. he asked for nothing. His problem is not that he is an oligarch, but that he is rich. as I said I’ve met him many times and he was one of the most talented bankers and businessman I came across in my time in Russia. Amazingly he left banking at the end of the 90s where he made a fortune - MDM was a top 3 bank after 1998 crash - and switched into industry – especially coal and fertilisers - with perfect timing at a time when it was far from obvious. What I read in this piece was a man whose business was supposed to be global but thanks to the actions of the Kremlin has been forced to turn in on itself and focus on Russia and now increasingly the global south The story is the same at Sistema, another highly successful and almost entirely commercial business group that was building a phenomenal international business that would among other things supply all the paper Europe needs. However, his empire has been wrecked as well and I’m told that billionaire owner Vladimir Yevtushenkov owes billions to the Russian banks as he tries to rescue his Group. Rather than sit outside and condemn these men for simply being Russia, try POV they are stuck inside and have been forced by the sanctions to focus on only mkt left to them - Russia. They are now thinking about what they should do with their businesses Ironically, even Yukos Khodorkovsky, who really was an oligarch but is not under sanctions, told me personally that he thinks the sanctions policy on oligarchs (aka rich people) is a mistake. It should’ve been constructed so that they could take their money and businesses out of the country. By sanctioning them you forced them in to the Putin fold and help not hinder the war effort. After all these are some of the cleverest people in business in Russia and what you’ve done is forced them to work for Putin as they have no escape. I say again a better policy would be to grant visas, residency, and bank accounts to any Russian that wants to leave. It would have drained the country of both it’s intellectual and monetary Capital which would’ve gutted it of two of its most important resources. For the record, Andy is the head of Amcham Ukraine who has lived there for years and of course he takes a hard line. What else should he do?

❗️В Подмосковье задержали Бориса Надеждина Политик был схвачен в Долгопрудном. Об этом он сам сообщил в своём Telegram-канале. По его словам, его везут в отдел полиции. Причины задержания пока не уточняются. В прошлую пятницу Надеждина признали иноагентом.