[thepicard]

Well also, a government has a responsibility to act in the best interests of its people. While shafting the banks with a gigantic legal dick would be kind of funny, it could hurt or inconvenience a lot of people.

If this works, people all over Russia will likely try stuff like this. Banks will have to check every contract with every customer ridiculously carefully until they can roll out a global solution. While fine print is sub-optimal and irritating, forced mass reform has serious short-term repercussions.

[mordae]

So what? Changing laws all the time also inconveniences people every time government does that. People can adapt.