MrDisposable

  > storing your backups in the ru segment

Or locally, on your owh HDD. It's a shame though that the HDD prices will soon become exorbitant, and a NAS would be unreachable for most folks.

It may work in a country where private business (i.e. state-independent source of income) is dominant, but a lot of Russians have jobs at state-owned institutions now (various administrations etc.) where they work for a meager wage.

If they go out protesting, they will be fired from their jobs -- their only source of income. Not exactly a good decision, especially during the crisis times.

  > Do you know if that also applies for legal entities or only natural persons?

Not sure (would adive to consult a lawyer), but it's quite possible that it applies both to physical persons AND legal entities.

  > It does seem like a good time to leave

Alas, too late for me...

I'm sure the "target" understands that perfectly well, and has already taken all necessary countermeasures.

  > Do you know if its only incorporation in EU countries?

Anywhere abroad. It is illegal (and has been illegal since 2014 or so, can't remember) for a Russian resident to have a controlling stake in a company not incorporated in Russia.

  > is that transactions out of the country or any transaction

It's about transfers of funds from Russia to foreign bank (and "bank-like") accounts. Accepting money from abroad is still legal -- which is confirmed by the fact that they yesterday imposed a requirement of mandatory conversion of 80% of any foreign-currency revenue to rubles.

  > I'm trying to understand the scale of Putin's decision

Drastic. Catastrophic. Suicidal. World-changing.

The country (Russia) in its current form has just ceased to exist. The entire parasitic elite class just got cut off from everything they stole during all these years. The entire human potential of Russia just got nullified for at lest 20 years. The push towards green energy (and I hope nuclear fusion) just got accelerated. NATO and EU memberships just became essential for any European country. The prospects of nuclear disarmamant are nullified.

The war isn't exactly a blitzkrieg now, but it still has a good chance to succeed -- but that's not what matters. It's the consequences that matter. They will affect the course of human history.

I think the west (Europe and USA) will be perfectly fine. It's we Russians who are fucked for the rest of our lives.

If I remember correctly, they aren't incorporated in Russia (but I may be mistaken).

  > "incorporation in an EU country"

Illegal, due to the "КИК" law, and, if I remember correctly, punishable by a heavy yearly fine (about $50K ath the current exchange rate).

  > "Electronic Money Institutes for at least some really basic banking"

Outgoing transfers to foreign banks and electronic money institutions are now illegal, due to the yesterday's order that forbids Russian residents to transfer money to their own accounts abroad.

Russia is committing suicide. And I hope it's not a physical suicide.

In any case, there's no coming back from this. My earlier prognosis of being trapped in a slavic North Korea technologically enslaved to China is starting to sound like an optimistic outcome.

Payments to Russian entities and persons that aren't explicitly sanctioned are still legal. Banks may decide to decline transfers though, or simply terminate accounts that do such transfers on their own discretion – even if they don't have a legal reason to do that.

Can a US company legally buy and transfer crypto?

Russian here, under a throwaway account.

Putin's Russia is committing a civilizational suicide.

Soon we will turn into a North Korea, completely isolated from the world, with no high-tech industry, and the only major "ally" being China. Lots of human potential will be wasted forever.

This will last for 10-15 years, then Putin dies (he's not immortal). I don't see Russia being chained to China forever, so I think we are bound to repeat the process of re-opening to the world -- the same process we went through in the 1990s.

I have pretty good chances of spending my entire remaining life in this predicament.

Long-time Russian HN user here, under a throwaway account and a VPN.

The majority public sentiment hasn't formed yet. The war started in early morning, and many people are still hung-over due to yesterday holiday (the Russian Army day, BTW).

My prediction is that there won't be a patriotic hysteria. People will be wary of possible consequences, which -- and I think everyone understands that -- may be severe. Medical drug prices will certainly go up, due to the fact that most drugs are imported. A high-tech / chip / electronics exports to Russia may be restricted. An oil & gas embargo may be imposed, which means that we're back to the 90's (though I think that Europe will be difficult to get on board, due to their dependency on Russia's energy).

My personal current sentiment is that we may get completely isolated from the west, and that we'll have to form a closer alliance with China -- which I don't like.

(A small consolation prize is that our corrupt "elites" will finally get what they deserve -- I expect heavy personal sanctions and foreign asset seizures).

Thank you for the analogy. To apply it to my situation, I have several piles of stuff (my projects) and one of these piles is smoldering. Not a full-blown fire yet, but it already sucks plenty of oxygen (money) from the room, and the smoke is getting more dense. I must pay attention.

Russian here. Good job Roskomnadzor. You just taught quite a few people to use VPN -- including me. And, as a side benefit, you created another image problem for Putin's regime (as if he needed any more of that).

I already had Bitlocker on all my PCs, 2FA everywhere, moved from Gmail to Fastmail, and VPN was one of the last privacy-related things I procrastinated on. Now I have VPN on all my desktops and on my phone, turned on by default. And I also switched to 1.1.1.1 for DNS.

Thank you government, I guess?

(Posted under a throwaway account).

My use case: as a Russian citizen living in Russia but planning to release an app, I'd much rather prefer doing it via an EU company than via a Russian company.

First, there's a lot of nasty stuff happens to business owners who don't have proper "protection" (their businesses get "transferred" to the right people and they themselves go to jail on phony charges for not wanting to sell their business for peanuts).

Second, the situation in Russia will definitely get worse, and when that happens, the problem I described above will also get worse. I just don't want to expose a business generating revenue in USD in Russia. And if it gets exposed (which it will, due to the automatic information exchanges between jurisdictions), I will have an additional barrier of protection against unwanted "transfers" -- it's easy to do to a Russian business, but it's much harder with foreign companies.

And third, selling an app while being listed in app stores as a Russian company definitely won't improve my first impressions, given all the hype about Russian hackers (there's even an example of it in this thread!)

By the way, if you want to register a company, go with a provder like LeapIN.eu -- they're fantastic.