The head of Norilsk Nickel and one of the richest people in Russia, Vladimir Potanin, opposed the nationalization. He stated that the confiscation of enterprises from Western owners who left the Russian market "will return us a hundred years ago, to 1917."

“This will take us back a hundred years, to 1917, and the consequences of such a step - global distrust of Russia on the part of investors - we will experience for many decades. Secondly, the decision of many companies to suspend operations in Russia is, I would say, somewhat emotional in nature and may have been taken as a result of unprecedented pressure on them from public opinion abroad. So most likely they will come back. And personally, I would save that opportunity for them.”

But we need to do it :-)

Google no longer connects new accounts from Russia to cloud storage.

The company also suspended the work of existing user accounts of Russians in the Adsense advertising network and blocked the possibility of registering new accounts.

Google try to impose extreme pressure on all Russian video bloggers by blocking their money and preventing any new income.

The European Commission has sent Google a request to remove Russian state media results for searches performed in countries within the EU. As The Washington Post reports, Google has uploaded a letter from EU officials to a database of government requests. In it, the officials explain how the commission's official order to ban the broadcast of RT and Sputnik in the European Union also applies to search engines and internet companies in general.

EU bureaucrats are not destroying the foundation of their system just trying to save their asses from information they don't like.

The Chinese army is ready to take decisive action to protect national sovereignty in connection with the aggravation of the Taiwan issue. This was reported today, March 10, by TASS with reference to Xinhua news agency.

According to the agency, such a statement was made at the parliamentary session in Beijing by a representative of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) and the People's Armed Police (an analogue of the internal troops) Wu Qiang.

"The more the United States and Japan make waves on the Taiwan issue, the tougher we will take to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said. Wu Qiang emphasized that the Chinese military will never tolerate separatist actions to realize Taiwan's independence and foreign interference in China's internal affairs. He noted that the related exercises and combat training of the PLA are in no way directed against Taiwanese compatriots.

"The actions of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party administration and their collusion with outside forces are the main cause of the current tension and turmoil in the Taiwan Strait," Wu Qiang said. The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China that does not tolerate external interference, the PLA spokesman concluded.