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veggibles to World News@quokk.au · 6 days ago

Putin Seizes Three More Japan Tobacco Businesses, Bringing Takeover to $3.7 Billion

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Putin Seizes Three More Japan Tobacco Businesses, Bringing Takeover to $3.7 Billion

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veggibles to World News@quokk.au · 6 days ago
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Putin Seizes Three More Japan Tobacco Businesses, Bringing Takeover to $3.7 Billion
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Vladimir Putin has seized control of three more Japan Tobacco International businesses, bringing the total to seven subsidiaries valued at up to $3.7 billion.
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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    Despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the company remained in the country, suspending new investments before deciding in 2023 to continue operations.

    You get what you deserve.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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      moreover it is tobacco industry. They are not good people at the best of times.

    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yup. In Japanese, that’s 自業自得 (jigōjitoku)

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    Guess he figures the sanctions will not be lifted in his lifetime, so why not steal the assets.

    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hopefully, that’s far sooner than he expects. 🙏🏼

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    Could we please fully ban doing business with them now? Maybe block their tourists until the end of the war?

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      Well, you’re in Japan, right? Maybe you can tell us what the public sentiment is like there? I think for most of us Japan is distant both physically and socially.

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