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>We won't know who of them are "businessmen" AFAIK there isn’t a clean answer to that question. The lines between businessperson, gangster, intelligence agent
by mikrl 2y ago
>We won't know who of them are "businessmen"
AFAIK there isn’t a clean answer to that question.
The lines between businessperson, gangster, intelligence agent are very fluid.
If you gain some success at one of those in Russia you need to start ingratiating yourself with the others because they will come and find you.
It’s like a more brutal version of businessperson / lobbyist in the US. If you want to excel in one you need to be both.
- valval 2y agoSpoken like someone who has absolutely no idea what they’re saying.
- mikrl 2y agoI’m not up to date on Russian business culture I admit. Outside of hearing about how you can pay off the police to avoid other protection schemes. Can you give me an example of a prominent Russia based businessperson who is regularly at odds with the Kremlin? The US has a few examples of billionaires who decide to take on the White House, sometimes even capturing it for themselves.
- sentfromrevolut 2y ago[dead]
- valval 2y agoThere are plenty, it's a matter of reporting and visibility I suppose.
- jojobas 2y agoThe businessmen and 'businessmen' I'm talking about are not high-profile creatures like Deripaska. I'm talking small-time business kind of guys who've earned few $ millions in Russia and decided to move their families to Czechia or Austria. They are not big enough to interest the Russian government or even local cops, and there are thousands of them. That's where you hide your agents, not among major oil or metal company owners (or rather custodians). How they operate is well described by defectors. Some maintain wide social circles, focusing on Russian emigrants, rich people in general or some other population, like running a hair salon, a real estate agency, a small hotel or some other front. Some sit quiet and run an errand here and there.
- canadianfella 2y ago[dead]