[pavlov]

They are giants in the local market, one where making it big practically requires support from the highest level of government.

So “Russian [x] giant” really means “Putin’s favored [x] company”.

[tasogare]

So quite similar to the US where oligarchs (oups, billionaires) are invited at the White House and companies provide algorithmic censorship favoring a particular political camp (obvious with Twitter before its recent purchase, YouTube actions against public free discourse on covid, Google removing pages related to a certain laptop, etc.)