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Record asset seizure: Authorities confiscated $7.6 billion in holdings tied to Vadim Moshkovich, the largest nationalization in recent years.

Part of wider campaign: The Kremlin has transferred an estimated $89.7 billion in private assets to state control since the Ukraine war began.

Elite on alert: Billionaires are showing loyalty to avoid similar fates, with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 56 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Putin is draining the Russian federation of money and workers, destroying the Russian empire from within, so he can pursue his personal interests of expanding the Russian Empire.

Once some people actually considered this man smart, but in reality he is a one trick pony, and the trick is disinformation, problem is that disinformation is not a strategy, it is at best a tactic, and tactics only have so many uses before they don't work anymore.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Once some people actually considered this man smart, but in reality he is a one trick pony

You fool! Comrade Pony has many tricks!

begins riffling through desk looking for a gun.

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Agree and upvoted, but I just wanted to pedantically brag about the mnemonic I learned today:

Disinformation = Dishonest, Deceptive

Misinformation = didn't have a good one for this...

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Misinformation = might be mistake

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 4 minutes ago

What would antidisinformationtarianism be? Incorrect pedantry?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ah yes of course, it was a slip-up, because in my language we use the word misinformation in the meaning of disinformation.
I have corrected the post.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Misinformation = mistakes?

So disinformation leads to misinformation?

[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

The move has intensified unease among Russia’s wealthy...

We need to intensify the unease among our own wealthy but for vastly different reasons.

Looks like this guy was trying to do something in Cyprus but forced home, arrested in 2025, and now having his assets seized.

Must not have been on board with the war in the beginning https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-rusagro-loses-third-its-value-after-moshkovich-detained-2025-03-27/

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

Lol so Russia is running dry if they're stealing from the rich

[–] Kittywifclaws@piefed.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Hope Elon is paying attention…

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 points 56 minutes ago

That's what we should do to all of them.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

yeah that will probably do a lot to make the russian oligarchs against the war

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And do what? They are not some united people. They're literally just grifters that will take as much scrap as possible and if Piotr is dead and his money is taken - good maybe there's an opportunity for me to grift more now and I didn't like Piotr anyway.

[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

They're United in their efforts to remove windows from upper floors.

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

heh, so Russia is going communist again..,

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Again? You have to be communist once before you can be again. Putin and the oligarchs are a continuation of the Stalinist/Leninist power structures. Which claimed they were aspirationally communist. The same way Jeffry Dahlmer was aspirationally a humanist.

Nah, the power structure is just cannibalizing itself to try to preserve itself again. The Russian people will continue to be screwed.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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