• nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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        1 day ago

        Putin’s kleptocracy didn’t succeed (never had the intention either, as for any kleptocracy) in creating or facilitating of any high tech company with a global reach - like IBM, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon etc.

        Instead, Putin has been destroying businesses: Yukos (an independent oil company, though) or, more recently, effectively expropriated Yandex or VK. The founders of these businesses had to leave (flee) the country too.