Post AbMZHA1XW4XNkDZg4e by pait@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AbMPYfjDtSnDSJibUO by hanse_mina@nafo.uk
       2023-11-01T10:55:20Z
       
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       #Carlsberg has cut all ties with its Russian business and refuses to enter a deal with Russia's government that would make its seizure of the assets look legitimate, the brewer's new CEO said on Tuesday.The Danish group has since last year been trying to sell its Baltika subsidiary in Russia, following in the footsteps of many other Western companies exiting Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/carlsberg-ceo-russia-has-stolen-our-business-2023-10-31/#Ukraine #Russia
       
 (DIR) Post #AbMPYgdwUaAAIEFttg by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2023-11-01T11:00:23.699462Z
       
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       @hanse_mina I think these actions by Russia are consistent with what was once called “theory of opers and operators” - they have now completed the cycle and are back to 2000’s:Widespread racket, takeover and stealing of businesses in Russia in 2000-2010’s is a fact: all private media and TV stations were taken over this way — cases of Vladimir Gusinsky^3, VK^4, Hermitage Capital Management^5 were most reported, but there were thousands of other smaller and less known companies stolen. The authors of the “theory of opers and operators” believe that this wave of cannibalistic takeovers, often carried out by people with zero experience in business, led to gradual decline of Russian economy and decline of its competitiveness. There was nothing more valuable left to be taken over, but appetites of the “opers” were still high, and their cadres were still growing in numbers – I remember statistics where at some point ~15% of the working population in some regions was employed in some kind of security services.https://write.as/arcadian/theory-of-opers-and-operators-andmdash-in-search-for-rational-explanations-of
       
 (DIR) Post #AbMZHA1XW4XNkDZg4e by pait@mastodon.social
       2023-11-01T12:10:38Z
       
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       @kravietz @hanse_mina I stopped at “gradual decline in 2000-2010”. The Russian economy had pretty much ceased to function by the time the Soviet Union ended.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbMZHBHWq6vBe63xdQ by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2023-11-01T12:49:16.920755Z
       
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       @pait It’s not a quote from the article, it’s two separate sentences combined into one. Soviet economy collapse was one thing, and it was a long-term consequence of ideologically rigid planned economy and lack of reforms. After 1991 the stagnation continued but after 2000 it started to rise along with rising hydrocarbon prices and opening Russian economy to the global markets. That was exactly the period where FSB started to cannibalise on the growing private sector. The decline from 2014-2015 is in part consequence of that process.@hanse_mina