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Comment by H8crilA

2 years ago

Weird accounting tricks in Russia include "the new nobility" making you offers that you cannot refuse. This is a country in which the FSB (equivalent of the FBI) is running their own protection rackets, even on a small scale of a local shop. Property law works very differently over there, which is to say it doesn't quite exist.

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ssijak  2 years ago

You can refuse, but then your chance of dying by "falling off the balcony" goes up dramatically.

thriftwy  2 years ago

Volozh could stay in Moscow and keep Yandex, though he was not acting CEO for some time.

But, he decided he prefers Israel (residing "behind the bump" in general sense). In modern political climate, you have to choose between having your pie and eating it.

  • paganel  2 years ago

    It's like Zuckerberg choosing to leave to Singapore and stay there in case a war in Taiwan breaks up, while ideologically aligning with China, of course, I'm not so sure that in that scenario his US-based assets will remain intact.

  • EasyMark  2 years ago

    I think it's like a good survival tactic as well. Known by the old saying Бери деньги и беги

MrBuddyCasino  2 years ago

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  • elzbardico  2 years ago

    The magic is that in the US, things that are illegal in most of the civilized world like lobbying, private campaign donations and PACs are enshrined in the law. Ergo, see momma! no corruption!

  • H8crilA  2 years ago

    Ah yes, just like in Russia we all know someone who was put in the trunk of a car by the FBI and driven around the forest just because they didn't want to pay up to the local director and his network of cronies. Or we all know of a prominent local case of a murderer or rapist that was released from prison (without any legal basis), then went on to fight a war for 6 months, then came back to our city with new military experience, now knowing how to handle rifles, grenades and man portable rocket launchers, and with severe PTSD.

    /s