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Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing the Biden administration to confiscate Russian assets held in American banks and transfer them to Ukraine, something the Kremlin has said would be illegal and trigger retaliation.

In response to Russia's war in Ukraine, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry and blocked about $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West, most of which are in European not American financial institutions.

The Group of Seven (G7) major democracies is also looking at what it may be able to do around the frozen Russian assets.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 147 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sucks to be them. If at this point you still do business in that shithole, you deserve to lose your ass.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this really seems like a win-win (assuming any reasonable Americans have had plenty of time to get themselves and their shit out of Russia).

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

At this point in history, any American businesses with assets left in Russia have forfeited my sympathy for whatever happens to those assets. And my sympathy for "entities with enough money to have assets in foreign countries" is scant to begin with.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Same... Sorry not sorry for your loss.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 months ago

It's actually Pepsi that is going to lose the most

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I'm well beyond forfeited sympathy, I celebrate their impending loss.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

"i'm in danger" - jill stein