by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:

According to calculations by Bloomberg News, “the total value of assets that have been re-domiciled by the wealthiest Russians since February 2022” now amounts “to at least $50 billion.” The reason for this is the sanctions that the U.S. Government imposed against Russia and against all countries that violate (fail to impose) those sanctions against Russia. Or, as Bloomberg explains this, “Now, Russia’s richest are left with a dwindling number of places to put their wealth, as many of them are under US, UK or European sanctions.” It pretends that Russia is to blame for this: “The Kremlin has put pressure on the wealthiest Russians to repatriate their assets from the countries it calls ‘not friendly.’” Pressure that the U.S. Government applied to European Governments in order to get them to comply with Washington’s anti-Russia sanctions isn’t mentioned in their article. (Nor does it mention that — as NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted on 9 May 2023, that “the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014.” In other words: the Russians on 24 February 2022 were only culminating their response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s having coup-grabbed Ukraine on Russia’s border during February 2014 — the aggressor was Obama not Putin. No hint was given of that reality, either, in this Bloomberg ‘News’ propaganda-article.