This was reported by the Russian news agency Rbc.ru.
I’ll wait for a less suspicious source, thanks.
RBC is actually akin to FT in Europe. And the source is the European commission, a link should be present in the article.
RBC hasn’t been independent since 2016 (remember Panama Papers?). On the other hand, EU is expected to lift sanctions against its owner, Grigory Berezkin, this week. Of course, Putin’s oligarch deserves more rights than ordinary Russians, totally understandable.
Not really saying that it’s independent, just that it’s not a random propaganda rag. Given that they’ve already received a strike mid 2022, they’re operating within a narrow corridor of permitted professionalized speech. Even a budding totalitarian regime is interested in having a decent financial newspaper to prop up the business/investment sector, and RBC is a far cry from the shrill propagandistic dross produced by Kremlin-originating sources. So, I don’t trust them to report everything, but I don’t expect them to outright produce fake news. That goes against the mutually beneficial niche they have settled in.
But what about dissidents that are fleeing russia?
This doesn’t make any sense to me. Someone’s car that they drove to Germany with doesn’t generate any money for Russia at all
Sell in Germany, go home, wash rinse repeat.
Why would they sell in Germany? With sanctions they can probably fetch better price in Russia.
You’d sell in Germany because you get paid in euros there. Unlike rubeles they don’t devalue significantly and universally accepted (unlike yuan or rupee)
Back in 90-00s it was a booming business, seems its
I imagine that they suspect that those Russians with valuables entering the country are illegally importing them to avoid tariffs.
