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Renault sold its 68% stake in AutoVAZ, Lada’s parent company, back in May this year for 1 or 2 roubles. They sold it to a Russian State automotive research institute, with the option to buy back in 6 years.
Guess who notoriously dips their hand in state-run companies’ profits? Hint: he’s the one sending young men to die in Ukraine.
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Oh yeah, there's an entire fund for that.
In the recital of the sanction decision, Office of Foreign Assets
Control labled RDIF as a slush fund for Vladimir Putin and as
emblematic of Russia’s broader kleptocracy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Direct_Investment_Fund
dau
I regularly donate to an NGO that helps supply people in the front, sometimes they announce that a squad we helped "liquidated" this or that which is already surreal but this is on another level. Great idea to raise funds nonetheless.
In other news - a very sad footage from some russian hospital. Soldier without arms receives a medal. Comrades cheer. Of course there's vodka involved.
https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/pfbid0p5ZoawQTSkxS6F8b14Zyz5UFfm7i3Pux67HMUBDby55Gq19WRoCRF9bkgp8UpZbAl
Goes into the same category with this video in which parents of a dead soldier bought a Lada from the compensation money they've received. Surreal. youtube