News Former Co-Owner of Russia's Baikal Microelectronics Goes Bankrupt

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One of Russia's key supercomputer companies goes bankrupt.

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[freedomfries]

Interesting article but I'd like to point out a glaring journalistic inaccuracy regarding the claim that Russia invaded Crimea. I certainly hope it wasn't made with the intention to mislead readers into believing this happened. That would be shameful.

There was a referendum in Crimea to secede from Ukraine and join Russia after the Maidan revolution. It was sparked by an internal matter of civil war in Ukraine and the people of Crimea voted to join Russia by an overwhelming majority. The opponents of this act of self determinism and self preservation claim that this is illegal, and invalid, but at the end of the day, Russia never "invaded Crimea". The population of Crimea is in majority Russian speaking ethnic slavs, and accordingly were at odds with the government in power in Kiev, the latter having become openly hostile to Russians. Delving into the details of the Maidan revolution is something I encourage everyone to do in light of the current war, but I won't get into it here.

 

[not-a-user]

Interesting article but I'd like to point out a glaring journalistic inaccuracy regarding the claim that Russia invaded Crimea. I certainly hope it wasn't made with the intention to mislead readers into believing this happened. That would be shameful.

There was a referendum in Crimea to secede from Ukraine and join Russia after the Maidan revolution. It was sparked by an internal matter of civil war in Ukraine and the people of Crimea voted to join Russia by an overwhelming majority. The opponents of this act of self determinism and self preservation claim that this is illegal, and invalid, but at the end of the day, Russia never "invaded Crimea". The population of Crimea is in majority Russian speaking ethnic slavs, and accordingly were at odds with the government in power in Kiev, the latter having become openly hostile to Russians. Delving into the details of the Maidan revolution is something I encourage everyone to do in light of the current war, but I won't get into it here.

Really!? You forgot to mention the totally not-russian solders/green men that took over by force local government offices and killed Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Crimea.
Granted crimeans would have voted to leave Ukraine even without Russian intervention. It was an absolutely unnecessary move by Russia. And it negated any and all credibility in the process that ensued.
We need to call it what it is - Russia invaded Crimea. Just because the soldiers were already there and they removed their identifying uniform markings during this military operation does not change the fact that they occupied Crimea.

 

[edzieba]

As a result, T-Platforms was delisted from DoC's Entity List in late 2013 – early 2014.

That should read added to the Entities List. The Entities List is a list of entities (persons, corporations, etc) subject to sanctions, not a list of those exempt.

 

[bokhenik]

Really!? You forgot to mention the totally not-russian solders/green men that took over by force local government offices and killed Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Crimea.
Granted crimeans would have voted to leave Ukraine even without Russian intervention. It was an absolutely unnecessary move by Russia. And it negated any and all credibility in the process that ensued.
We need to call it what it is - Russia invaded Crimea. Just because the soldiers were already there and they removed their identifying uniform markings during this military operation does not change the fact that they occupied Crimea.

The Russian soldiers were not already in Crimea, they arrived from Russia by boat to take over. Russia was leasing a navy base in Crimea but their navy was not used for the occupation.

Crimea residents voting to join Russia is far from certain and is a moot point anyway. There was periodic polling done on the matter with ~54% wanting to remain in Ukraine, and this was rising each year (not hard to find online). There's also a significant Crimean Tartar population who hate Russia (for good reason) and they strongly wanted to remain part of Ukraine. But this is all moot anyway because if the residents of Crimea really did want to leave (even though this is against the constitution), there would have been protests, legal action, etc. etc. (like Euromaidan) which would have made it impossible for Ukraine to ignore, but this wasn't the case. Its an illegal land grab by Russia.