Russian business pays the price for Putin's grandstanding
@anneapplebaum In addition to the one paying by the Russian people.
@anneapplebaum it would be so contrarian to pummel Ukraine, Putin is a finely-attuned political machine, he ain't gonna do it. That said, that's some resource-intensive flexin' if that's all this little stunt ends up being.
@anneapplebaum @RealFactsVsFake Do you think this will matter to Putin?
@anneapplebaum @ccaryl If his billionaire oligarch BFFs are in trouble, he is too.
@anneapplebaum If this carries on we might soon find out that putin has fallen out of a window
@anneapplebaum Dow Jones & Company said yesterday that its first-quarter profit tumbled 48 percent, saying the tough advertising market had been weakened further by the effects of the war in Iraq. The Associated Press April 11, 2003 "everything old is new again"
@anneapplebaum Doesn't matter, no insider will buy those (except of putin's "family"), no external will buy those due to well known reasons.