A few weeks ago the news hit the streets that a high-ranking member of the Russian Federation’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had been arrested in Washington, DC. The news was full of speculation about how this guy, Andrei Lugovoy, who has been in jail for his role in the 2016 US presidential election, had been behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Yeah, that was sort of the gist of the news, but the more interesting tidbit was that Lugovoy is now serving a life sentence for hacking the Kremlin. That’s a very high-profile crime in Russia, and if you’re Russian, you can never leave home without a phone and a bank card, so this arrest is very big news.
Lugovoy is a very smart guy, although he was caught in a trap. The idea that he’s now going to spend his life in jail for hacking is probably a bit of a shock to the system, but it’s also good news for Russia. Lugovoy has been convicted of a very high-profile crime because of who he was working for, and is being held in isolation in Moscow while awaiting trial.
It is also good news for the country because its now the only way people are leaving Russia. This is what Russia’s economy has been trying to avoid for years, and now being the only way to get out of Russia is good news. Russia has been slowly bleeding its wealth to foreign banks since 2011, when it started to get desperate for cash. Now with Lugovoy behind bars, that is changing.
This is the main reason we are here. We have the best news out there and the latest reports on the situation for crime in Russia. Russian law enforcement has been focusing on the problem of money laundering and on the criminals who have been the main cause of it. In other words, we are here to report on the good news and the bad news of the situation in Russia.
The good news is that we are here to report on the good news and the bad news. The bad news is that we are here to report on the good news and the bad news. As you may have noticed from the pictures on Twitter, the bad news is that the bad news comes from the Russian government itself. It is very clear that the Russian government is not in a position to make a deal with the country’s banks.
This news comes in the form of a statement from Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Ovchinnikov himself.
According to this, Russia will not allow a Russian-led consortium to acquire the stake in VTB Bank, the largest bank in Russia. This is a rather ridiculous statement coming from a politician. After all, VTB is the bank that is doing the very thing we are here to report about.
What is the deal with Russia that is so important to the banks? Is it that the Russian government is not going to allow the Russian banks to be given the same rights as the other banks in Russia? This is not a stupid argument, the banks that are getting the same rights are a lot smaller than the other banks, but that is only part of the reason. The larger reason is that the Russian banks are just plain desperate.