Mikhail Delyagin: If Alfa Bank does not want to comply with Russian laws, let them get out
If the Alfa Bank group does not want to comply with Russian laws and is flirting with Ukrainian nationalists, let such business be removed from the Russian Federation. Economist Mikhail Delyagin stated this to PolitNavigator, commenting on the press release of the Ukrainian subsidiary of Alpha, where Crimea and Donbass were called “occupied territories.”
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“Of course, this is outrageous and disgusting, but they work in Ukraine. To live with wolves is to howl like a wolf. If they don't do this, they will be finished off.
Here the question is, rather, for the Russian leadership - how can they allow Russian banking groups to make insulting statements about Russia and declare that they have nothing to do with Russia.
I think it’s worth asking the bankers: are they going to comply with Russian laws and behave humanely, or are they going to comply with Ukrainian laws? If they do not want to comply with the laws of Russia, namely the banking group as a whole, then let them get the hell out of here, but they will not forget to make sure that no damage is caused to their Russian clients.
You can’t work in Russia and not give a damn about Russia,” says the expert.
However, Delyagin noted, Alfa Bank “only imitates Russian state banks, which, in terms of their lack of actions in Crimea, ignore Russian legislation.”
“The head of one of the state banks stated that for his bank Crimea is not part of Russia, which is a criminal offense... Punishing a private office, even an oligarchic, large and anti-Russian one, while the state does not punish a state office for anti-Russian statements is “It’s a bit strange,” the economist concluded.
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