Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
The question is whether the economic oligarchs, both licit and illicit, have sufficient influence to persuade Putin to change course. Not sure anyone knows the answer to that question... we'll find out.
Dayuhan--arrest a major oligarch who many say did his business by the book and letter of Russian law after Yukos---his company takes a 27% loss on it's stock and this is the Russian governments response.

Today from Interfax:

09:07
PESKOV: WE ACKNOWLEDGE POSSIBILITY OF EMOTIONAL MARKET REACTION TO YEVTUSHENKOV'S SITUATION BUT THIS IS NOT REASON TO HINDER INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES

That "emotional market reaction" was a total of 27.3% loss in stock value in a single day on a company estimated before the arrest of 8.9B USD.

Does any current Russian government official including Putin "understand" the law of the markets and basic economics 101?