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> Business Solidarity, an organisation that works to protect small businessmen, estimates that one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail, and that one in thre
by ilitirit 15y ago
> Business Solidarity, an organisation that works to protect small businessmen, estimates that one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail, and that one in three prisoners in Russia is a businessman.
How on Earth did they come up with that estimate?
- mathrawka 15y agoNo idea, but after reading that article... I don't think the numbers really matter. If all the facts in the story are right, then one man will be away from his children for 5 years, just because he didn't want to be strong-armed out of his business. That is enough for me to realize that something is very wrong with Russia.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoWe have to look at numbers (and look at how these numbers are calculated) because else we're the are hand-waving and permanently-shocked. It's obvious that you can find some atrociously bad things happening in any place on earth. The interesting question is the general quality of life.
- andrest 15y agoHow did they come up with the estimate? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eixjRLlvtk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eixjRLlvtk (full documentary can be found on YouTube) Having had some business interests in the same region I can tell you from first-hand experience that people like the Russian gentleman living in France are VERY common. Lots of criminals with business interests are considered to be businessmen.
- vvpan 15y agoThat sounds like complete BS. I grew up in Russia and no way that statistic could be remotely true.
- rbanffy 15y agoThey must consider criminal enterprise a business. And that gives me pause... Who are the other five Russians in jail?