Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
Christ Almighty, there you go again, brown-nosing the murdering turd.
You clearly don't do politics much.
There the basic rule of law was succinctly expressed by the late Roy Cohn: 'I don't know the law, but I know the judge'. Putin has used this to his advantage from his early days in Yeltsin Russia.
Maybe look back at Yukos, hit with fines greater than their revenues and forced into liquidation. The letter of the law matters in Russia, as interpreted by the Kremlin.