Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from Local App Stores

Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by x0x0 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:47PM (#13346526)

To reiterate nooron's point, the West wasn't exactly helpful during the oil shock that ended the USSR and the transition to democracy, but to blame the US for the oligarchs / theft of public resources is going way too far.

BTW, if anyone is interested in the fall of the USSR, Yegor Gaidar, an economist, acting Russian PM from June '92 to Dec '92, and architect of the shock therapy reforms immediately post dissolution of the USSR wrote a book about it. I highly recommend it if you're interested in economic history.

This appears to be a brief summary of the argument: https://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/13/Soviet-Union-Oil/

book: https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Empire-Lessons-Modern-Russia...

Yegor Gaidar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor_Gaidar

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by hn_123 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:51PM (#13346547)

Gaidar is not the person you want to listen to if you want an honest unbiased opinion on the events of that era.

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by x0x0 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:57PM (#13346591)

Of course it's biased, I thought that was pretty implicit in it being his book. Primary sources are always interesting.

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