https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1215600010141-obschestvo-s-ogran...
It is even a Russian company. It was registered a bit before the war started and liquidated not so long ago.
Being Russian doesn't make you suspicious of anything.
There are lots of young Russian people coming to Latin America recently, presumably (if I had to guess) to escape the war. Source: seen this with my own eyes.
It could be sanctions, and it is not related to reviews at all.
Chile has been a popular destination for Russians to escape the war because it's easy to get a visa and a permanent residency via business immigration.
This would be a bit weird in previous life (before the war), but today it's normal b/c wrong nationality means you'll be assumed as evil orc who worship pu*in and support tha war bla-bla-bla. So mentioning that you at least don't live there and you business in not there helps a bit. Source: I'm in the same situation.
And those who actually support the crazy dictator (by making fake companies across the world to bypass sanctions, for example) don't mention their names on the internet, don't ask public for help fighting Apple's decision, and probably don't sell mobile apps at all.
As a foreign student myself, I would not risk trying to navigate the US visa process knowing my status could be jeopardized at any time. Berkeley isn't the only university in the world worth attending.
The nation will be judged by its government's actions, because the gov is supposed to be kept in check by the people.
Do you know how ridiculous you sound right now?
Looks like Russian majority has been supporting occupation of Georgia, occupation of Crimea and probably now doesn't care about current occupation of Ukraine.
Ruling party was reelected before, during and after that.
Of course I understand that many people have justifiably strong feelings about this sort of thing, but that's why HN's rules specifically say: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
We had far more complicated fraud detection algorithms at the startup than at the fortune 500.
It's bigotry, however.
And you know what? Some other people might say: 'Well, this guy is black, and black guys are more likely to commit crimes, so it makes sense if we follow him around the store to make sure that he doesn't steal anything.' And some other people might say: 'Well, he looks like he might be a Muslim, and radical Islamists are more likely to be terrorists, so it is fair that we select him for some additional screening at the airport.'
Would you agree with all those people as well? And if not, what do you think is the difference between you and them?
And yes, sanctions are half baked and poorly enforced. "West" continues trading with Russia.
Russians overseas send a grand total of $5M back to the country every month.
Europe purchases a few million tons of oil, $5B/year.
Numbers made up, and just for illustrative purposes.
Which makes it pretty dishonest, especially when you augment it with mixing month and year ;)
> Russians overseas send a grand total of $5M back to the country every month.
Remittances to Russian individuals are like $25B/year; this is a whole lot. Yah, oil industry revenues are 10x higher (after having about a 20-30% bite taken out of them by sanctions), but of course, in order to get that revenue a decent chunk of the hard currency has to flow back out of Russia to pay for various O&G related expenses.
It would be nice, of course, to trim down the O&G revenues more, but any policy actions that countries take against a hostile state need to hurt the adversary more than themselves, and it's not too clear how to go further on O&G and meet this criteria.
And everyone is ok with such "racism".
By applying tons of restrictions to the people based on their passport or place of birth.
For example getting a green card for Indian people.
Or visiting US. What is frictionless for people with Swiss passport is almost impossible for people with "hostile" passport. Getting a US travel visa is not trivial.
As an American it is basically impossible for me to immigrate to India and establish citizenship without my parents being Indian and knowing an official language fluently or by "investing" approximately $2 million USD and hiring at least 20 people to work for me.
There are countries where it is much harder to get residence (not citizenship) than your case with India.
While I acknowledge the point, as a Dutch citizen it’s harder for me to travel to the US than India. That still seems weird to me.
OR maybe they're by acquaintances of the author that have some beef with him and have decided to sabotage him?
Is it possible that Apple is discovering some connection between these reviewers and the author that the author is not aware of?