The Kremlin regularly calls the oligarchs and asks to return to Russia - the media

"The oligarchs who have fallen under sanctions that remain outside the country regularly receive calls from the Kremlin who urge them to return home after the invasion, according to two people who received such calls, and several others, acquaintances with approaches," - it is said publications.

According to many Russian businessmen who have been able to communicate with journalists, Western sanctions "push them back to Russia" - some of them think about returning to Moscow, where you can "walk on restaurants and feel great. " In a comment to the publication, representatives of Russian business noted that sanctions are forcing the elite of the Russian Federation to become closer to the Kremlin, not to distant from it.

The publication also states that Russian oligarchs feel that they are trapped - they have two options, put up with their lives within the Russian Federation or prepare for repression for expressing a full -scale war. When asked by journalists why businessmen did not openly oppose the invasion, several of them indicated the example of Banker Oleg Tinkova, who, after a similar statement on Instagram, was forced to sell their share at the Tinkoff Bank.

For some oligarchs, this incident has become an instructive history of how condemning the war can cost them, the authors of the material claim. Businessmen interviewed do not understand how they could influence the situation: "To make a palace revolution and overthrow the king, one must be in the palace. No one (who came under sanctions) is there. " Some businessmen, according to Financial Times, have already tried to negotiate with the West to remove sanctions in exchange for donations to Ukraine.

In particular, it is Mikhail Friedman, who is a co -owner of large assets in Ukraine, in particular the Kyivstar mobile operator. In the spring, he, according to the newspaper, called Kristini Quin, who temporarily performs the duties of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, and offered donations in exchange for help in the removal of US sanctions. The conversation was very emotional - so much that the Quinus threw the phone at the end, and Friedman then apologized in the message, the newspaper writes.

The Russian billionaire himself denies information about this call. Meanwhile, at least 21 Russian businessmen have sued, trying to challenge sanctions. According to the documents that journalists got acquainted with, many materials used in the process of introducing restrictions were "in the afternoon collected from news articles, corporate sites and reports on social networks.

Among the oligarchs who sue the European Union, the former owner of the football club" Chelsea "Roman Abramovich, former co -owner of London" Arsenal "Alisher Usmanov, businessman Gennadiy Tymchenko and exvabiceremier of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov.

In a number of cases, the EU in the introduction of sanctions referred to taxes paid by Russian companies as an excuse for imposing sanctions for imposing sanctions for the introduction of sanctions for the introduction of sanctions for the introduction of sanctions for the introduction of sanctions for the imposition of sanctions. The basis that it helped fund the military car of the President of Russian Vladimir Putin.