kicking the can down the road in hope that the problem will somehow resolve itself someday.
Russia, however, will act regardless of the EU decision just made, because there is a huge hole in the Russian budget that needs to be plugged and because Europe continues to finance Ukraine anyway.

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(more than €300 billion if to count all forms of assistance to Ukraine).

The EU can continue to be guided by international law in relation to Russia, which is guided by the “laws” of racketeering in relation to Europe. Europe can continue to make ‘compromise’ decisions, >>>

using the European funds frozen in Russia. These funds are less than the Russian assets in Euroclear, but the problem is that the Russian funds in Euroclear are not sufficient to compensate for TWO types of damages: damage to Ukraine (at least €600 billion) and damage to European persons >>>

international financial organizations such as the EBRD.

The Bank of Russia has already filed a lawsuit against Euroclear, where the bank's funds are frozen, in a Russian court. The first court hearing will take place on January 16, 2026. No need to laugh: the decision will be enforced in Russia >>>

The list of investors whose funds may be confiscated in Russia is long enough and includes, for example, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund aka Government Pension Fund Global aka Norwegian Oil Fund, the Dutch management company APG, which administers pension funds, >>>

among them are Russian investors who invested via their foreign companies.
2. Writing off the funds of selected investors: investments of sovereign and quasi-sovereign funds, banks with direct and indirect state participation.
3. A combination of the two options.
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assets in Russia, etc. All these funds were transferred and are blocked in a special account “C” opened by the Russian Ministry of Finance.

The Russian government is considering several schemes:
1. Expropriation of all such funds and their transfer to the Russian budget. However, >>>

Russia is considering options for using European assets frozen in Russia. To remind: Russia has blocked the monetary funds of investors from “unfriendly countries” to prevent their withdrawal from Russia - direct investments in Russian securities, dividend payments, proceeds from the sale of >>>

Not bridges across rivers in Russia. There are known cases when not particularly complex repairs of bridges across rivers there took months to complete.
Striking both makes sense, of course.

There was another similar story, the only difference being that the individual didn't manage to become president, even though he wanted to and even ran for office. That was before Trump.

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in the amount of the illegally withheld assets and lost profits.

of its assets, the Bank of Russia, in accordance with its previously stated position on protecting its interests, announces that it will seek compensation from European banks in a Russian arbitration court for losses caused by the unlawful freezing and use of its assets, >>>

his parents, childhood, youth, actual expulsion from the KGB, where he was a complete failure and loser, his work with gangsters and their influence on him, the pile of compromising information on him that still exists and is in the hands of certain people... and so on.

5. Stick it into your mind that this is not a war for Ukraine, but a war for Europe, and draw appropriate conclusions. No one will be able to sit on the sidelines, not even Orbán and a few others.