Maybe you should go back to school after your previous comment. I thought it was Majorie Taylor greene for a second. Such fking nonsense.
Meanwhile, on the conscription front:-
Anton Gerashchenko on X: "Russian military commissariats conducted a large-scale handover of enlistment notices to migrants in the South Urals, Russian media report. The event was organized together with the support of OMON special forces and took place at the Chinese market located in the Metallurgical… https://t.co/3YFuswuUQU" / X (twitter.com)
Just wait until these boys contact the folks back home.......
Or maybe I sound like someone who went to school in one of those countries in Eastern Europe.
You sound like a trumper with that shite. I’ll let you get back to fox “news”
Simple. You register your companies in the UK or in Cyprus, and use Cyprus/UK courts for legal disputes. While in Russia you use gangs of enforces to kill and intimidate your competition. Or you get connections in the power and use police as your private enforcers.
If it's anything like the company who took over McDonald's after they left, the standard is about to really plummet.
And Prigozhin's PMC is not the only one, despite such private military organizations being against the Law. But there's only one law in Russia, Don Putin's Law.
With Medvedev keeping up the tradition!!
TLDR version: socialism is the road to communism; during the socialism period you put any dissenting persons in prison/gulags/ground, and when you run out of them you reached communism. Unfortunately the later never happened anywhere.
And a Mafia Dictatorship at that!!!
It will be a good while before these "Western" MNCs will be back there in a big way. There will be + already is investment from the Chinese/Turkey/India etc., but I would say caveat emptor!
How can you operate in a country where there is no reliable legal system? (even ignoring the whole fascist state thing!)
So… no foreign investment in russia for the next 100 years ?
Holding on to ensure everyone gets to keep their job and "favourite" beer surely goes against the whole point of sanctions.
Boohoo some Russians lose jobs. How many jobs lost in Ukraine.
I cant say I know anything about the Russian psyche but the long trust of their history is lots of bullshit coming from the West, Hitler, Napoleon, the British etc. Then you have the fall of communism and the Yeltsen years aping Germany after WW1. They are certainly going to be primed as a people
I think that may have been true of Nazi Germany as well. People knew full they were living in a gangster state, but somehow convinced themselves it was run by 'respectable' gangsters.
The entire Prigozhin affair is quite revealing in what it says about Russian society. A mercenary with his own private army numbering hundreds of thousands of men threatens to topple the government and then is eliminated by the mafia style President a few weeks later. There is nothing remotely 'normal' about the country.
Yes.
"We are happy we found a suitable buyer. We believe it is a reliable party...We are happy this process comes to an end and to be able to leave Russia," he added.
Heineken had seven breweries in Russia and 1,800 employees, who will receive employment guarantees for the next three years.
I wonder is it sad or touching that they still believe in any kind of "guarantees" when it comes to Russia? At this point IMO it operates how I imagine a South American drug cartel might if someone entrusted them with multi-trillions of $ worth of natural resources, a collection of doomsday weapons + a giant military.
In fairness the russian company have to keep everyone employed, 1800, for 3 years. so it was a responsible exit.
From Twitter post (link won't work)
Heineken announces a TOTAL loss of their entire multi-billion dollar Russian operation. Sold for nothing to a Putin proxy.
EVERY Russian investment boom ends the same - EVERYTHING Is stolen and handed to the ruling regime.
I'd say many Russians are aware of how their leadership operates, and a significant number of them approve of it.
Comments on Russian social media and even in vox pops on the streets had people saying they weren't remotely surprised to hear that Prigozhin is now dead. We have this bizarre scenario of most people in Russia knowing they are living in a mafia state with Putin as a mafia boss and yet nobody can actually articulate this there in concrete terms.
Some balls cutting them open with an angle grinder. I wonder how effective the anti-armor submunitions are dropped from a drone. We'll probably see soon enough.
Communists/socialists love Democracy once you vote the right way.
Just like NK is known as the democratic people’s Republic of Korea, there’s nothing democratic about them. Russia was communist not socialist during that time.
Oh boy. I can't wait to cast my vote in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
Russia has not had proper experience with democracy but interestingly the Soviets did hold a vote in 1917 when they assumed power fully. It also seems to have been relatively fair in that the Soviets lost badly. Obviously they decided not to have elections again after that and did not respect the results.
Lets see how this goes
I'd also say Russia was drunk for the 90s (Yeltsin)
That's some photo. Looks like one of those old "charge of the light brigade" era paintings
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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