Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154243, was unfortunately misunderstood by one user who thought I wanted to punish Russians who remained in the country after the invasion, rather than simply extend additional help to those who had left

edit, a flagged comment raised this question "Why are you helping these people compared to the other billion around the world in far worse positions?"

If you're upset that some country is about to get special treatment because I made a comment on HN, then you needn't because what I've suggested probably won't happen. I don't think "You want to help $groupA? Why not $groupB?" is a very helpful way to look at this, and furthermore it's a little presumptuous to think that I'd exclusively want to assist one nationality but not another just because I didn't mention it. There are dozens of ways the UK, the EU or "the west" are not helping or are actively hindering other parts of the world. To expect me to address any or all of the others when I want to talk about one is ridiculous.

/s

... which passport? Russians have two passports, one is for the internal matters and other one for traveling abroad.

Add: lol downwotes. Sure, guys, you are always concentrated and read the article, filled with the fillers and stating what the water is wet to the brim, because, you know, someone may wake up from 20 years coma and suddenly need to read this article.

And to those who missed that part, like me:

> Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official, said passport restrictions had now expanded beyond individuals with security clearance.

> “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.

Which to me sounds like bullshit.