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TL;DR - According to Business Solidarity, one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in prison, with one in three total prisoners being classed as a businessman. One
by SkimThat 15y ago
TL;DR - According to Business Solidarity, one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in prison, with one in three total prisoners being classed as a businessman.
One example is a dairy farmer who refused to sell his thriving business to an unknown buyer at the request of Russia’s interior security service. After repeated threats, he was accused of fraudulently using a bank loan and sentenced to five years in prison.
Not all businessmen end up in jail, as an estimated 60-80% don’t complain, share their profits and bribe officials.
- colanderman 15y agoWait... is this a novelty account on HN? I feel like I've just seen the first horseman of the apocalypse.
- rms 15y agoBut... it's useful. :o
- bh42222 15y agoBut there's a high cost to this kind of "usefulness".
- colanderman 15y agoIt's only useful to those who haven't read the article. To those who have, it adds only noise (at best, filler) to the discussion. Beside, it sets a poor precedent. Novelty accounts are "OK" at Reddit and 99% of them only decrease quality. It'd be nice for them not to be "OK" here.
- pilom 15y agoIt was a short article, why do you even bother with the summary?
- SkimThat 15y agoThe summary is still much shorter than the article. It's 13% the size.