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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.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 67 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (7 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.

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (4 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...

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Misinformation = mistakes?

So disinformation leads to misinformation?

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