Incredible, just incredible:
An international arbitration court ruled on Monday that Russia must pay $50 billion for expropriating the assets of Yukos, the former oil giant whose ex-owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky fell foul of the Kremlin. Finding that Russian authorities had subjected Yukos to politically-motivated attacks, the panel made an award to a group of former Yukos shareholders that equates to more than half the entire fund Moscow has set aside to cover budget holes.
These idiots are so intent on being stupid like it’s going out of style. Castigating the vicious gang of bandits called “Yukos” was the only good thing Putin’s regime ever did. Do you know why there are so few voices of dissent coming out of Russia today? Do you know why the words “human rights activists” leave everybody in Russia heaving with laughter? That’s because Yukos bought every such activist and turned him or her into a mouthpiece for the defense of its gang leader Khodorkovsky. Yukos are criminals of the worst order. And they never had any “assets.” Jeez, people, use your heads. Where would they get “assets” from, two seconds after the collapse of the USSR where nobody was allowed by law to have any “assets”?
The Yukos gangsters were given some money to keep for the criminals sitting in the Kremlin. Then the Kremlin criminals decided it was time to get their blood money back from the Yukos branch of the gang. So they did. And now the European court decides it has nothing better to do than to adjudicate disputes among murderers as to who is more “entitled” to their ill-gotten gains?
It is obvious to everybody at this point that the EU is not going to do anything to improve the situation in the East. But it could try not to make things worse.
Hopeless dumb-asses.
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Oh yeah, the bourgeois order prioritizes capitalism and perceives money making as the expression of ethics.
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If these Yukos freaks at least made some money! But they didn’t even do that. Useless freaks.
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Well nobody, really “makes” money. Money is printed and it is circulated, and in terms of the prevalent ideology of bourgeois culture, that constitutes ethics itself.
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There is a difference between money circulating towards people who have created something and are providing useful goods or services and people who haven’t created anything.
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Yes. Ideally there OUGHT to be a difference, but I would say that it is the majority of the cases where money is circulating toward those who are not doing very much at all. One may be doing quite a lot and generating quite a lot, but this does not automatically compel money to reach you. Those who can get it to reach them without working too hard, if at all, are the real winners in the bourgeois order, because their authority will be accepted very easily indeed.
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// equates to more than half the entire fund Moscow has set aside to cover budget holes. … Russia, whose economy is on the brink of recession, said it would appeal the ruling by the Dutch-based panel
What if the appeal doesn’t work, but Russia simply declines to pay anyway? In Putin’s place, I wouldn’t pay half the fund. You also think he won’t pay in any case, with EU saying a few meaningless words and that’s it?
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Of course, Russia will decline to pay. The consequences of this court decision are not economic but symbolic and ideological. Europe has just lost all legitimacy in siding with such obvious bandits.
It’s like they are doing it on purpose, seriously.
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