[yetihehe]

> We all have to be penalized somehow, but give us a chance to fix at least something.

I concur with the rest of your argument, but I think excessive penalization should be upheld as long as Russian forces are in Ukraine. The more penalization, the faster that war will end. After war - yeah, some sanctions should be lifted.

It looks like similar problem as with Germany after WW I. They got held down too much "so that they pose threat no more" and it backfired. Western world tried to appease Russia with economic integration and flow of capital, but it still didn't work. Germany somehow departed from their war-oriented path, how would you do that with Russia?

[bobuk]

I understand the idea of sanctions but didn't get how it works in this case. He is not in Russia. He lived and pay taxes in Israel for last 3 years. He is even not a Russian citizen (changed his passport to Malta and Israel 4 years ago).

I have nothing to say about sanctions against Tigran Khudaverdyan (who is COO and really in charge of Yandex actually), it's pretty logical.

[sam_lowry_]

I always assumed that WWII was facilitated by heavy sanctions imposed on Germany. See [1] for a romanticized description of economic disarray that thrusted Hitler into power.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Comrades_(novel)

[yetihehe]

Yeah, that's what I meant with my comment.