Lesson learned: don't fuck with russkies

Er...its not that easy as it looks like.
This Forbes stuff and billioners is way higher than just some rich person being nuts about someone disclosing that "WOW his in Mafia!"

Suppose someone says You're in the mafia and You got billions, so fucking what? Mass media says all kinds of bullshit all the time about rich people , about mafia, about government, so what? Who cares? No one's getting killed because of that.
(well..mostly)

Do You think russian mass media doesnt call our billion making dudes mafia? They do every fucking day and everyone is alive. The call Mr. Putin whatever they want and they are all alive.
(well....mostly)

It's all about different stuff.
Suppose You're Forbes , suppose You got friends in lets say company called Shell and lets assume Shell wants to buy lets say PUBLIC (thats important) local company in Africa "Oil Corporation of Republic of Nigeria". So You go and print that "Oil Corporation of Republic of Nigeria" is full of shit , mafia and drug money and all local small investors say "Wow, Forbes is never wrong" and guess what the price goes down, and here Shell is buying it for pennies.
That's just a small example.

One thing important to understand - there is no such thing as independent media. Especially in finances.

"The people who became billionaires in months..."
What the fuck........

Yes, it is kind of the same if you would all of a sudden become the owner of Shell

It's no wonder.
There was no private property in Soviet Union. Everything belonged to the government.

However once Soviet time was over, the "privatization" started when normal people were making their flats and house their property and business was transferred to be private property as well.

So imagine You were a director of a huge oil factory in Soviet Times with an extreme salary of 500$ (no shit) and then in 1 day You had better possibility than anyone else to make the whole factory Yours, and the next day You wake up - You're a billioner.

As far as I recall they still think to sue the guy in the Govermnet who actually started that "privatization" process cause it fucked the whole country.

That's a pretty interesting point of view.

I think i somewhat agree with you.

Russia is the wild wild west. Not a good place to set up shop. :2 cents:

Actually probably the best place to set up shop (along with China), I know of these two Icelandic guys that went over there and set up a beer factory, with in a couple of years their beer (Bravo it was called I think) was the third most poular beer in Russia. Then they sold it to Heineken for $300 millions.

Russian Mafia in effect.

wow

50 mobsters :BangBang: