If Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev were still around, you'd see that convoy moving full-speed ahead, tank-ing like a boss! Interestingly, he believed the communist-party was going to take-over the west in the early 60s. Instead, the hippie-generation took off and parents of the USA were still terrified everything would be communist.
Taxes on buying gold are abolished in Russia. Putin tries to sell gold to the Russian population. Economic sanctions seem to work. Russians who spread fake news go 15 years in prison. Putin decides what "fake "news is. Russian definition of "fake": everything that is negative for Putin and his oligarchs. 700 million $ boat from oligarch Oesmanov confiscated in Germany. Russian soldiers are invading supermarkets to find food. Logistic problems.
Second oligarch loses his yacht. France has seized a yacht owned by Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the French finance ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Sechin is the CEO of Russian oil giant Rosneft. The European Union sanctioned Sechin earlier this week, describing him as one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "most trusted and closest advisors, as well as his personal friend."