[Olog-hai]

Keep thinking that they are in any way like us and you may be in for a surprise.

Rosneft and Gazprom are still state companies. Doesn’t matter about the foreign investment; there is no foreign ownership there. Would you trust Exxon or Mobil if the federal government owned them?

[goldstategop]

There are strategic industries in which the government has a controlling interest.

Many European countries pursue the same “strategic champions” policy as Russia.

There is foreign investment in those companies; they just cannot exceed a majority of the shares.

[FreedomNotSafety]

They are not like us. They have had their guns confiscated, their land collectivized and their people starved to death by the millions, their churches closed, their children indoctrinated, and their wealth and income stolen. They have no desire to go back to revisit that.

We are not like them because our government wishes us to experience the above.

The average Russians I know remind me of what this country was like before we became a worker's paradise.