US Biolabs Around the World

I kept hearing stories about American bio labs in post-Soviet countries for many years now. The issue has surfaced yet again in connection with Russia’s Ukraine operation, and the seizure of some documents by the Russian military.

It would seem that the Americans due to the US legislature, and the legislature in other Western countries, set up these bio labs in shitty Third World countries with weak and corrupt governments. Now the Chinese are interested in them too…

Can Sberbank Open Branches in Crimea Now?

Sberbank in the Czech Republic has been all but destroyed in the Czech Republic in the wake of the Ukraine war. I used to joke that Sberbank has more branches in the Czech Republic than it does in the Republic of Crimea. There weren’t any Sberbanks in Crimea…

I really wonder what led Sberbank to open branches in the EU? Don’t they do risk assessment before investing? A large institution like Sberbank could afford a media analysis of the mainstream Czech papers and found out that those are thoroughly Russophobic. Obviously, they didn’t do any of that and now all their branches are closed. They may open some in Crimea, and in Ukraine now.