People get these confused a lot, but russia has 2 coups in the 90s-

1991 was a failed anti-reformist “left wing” coup that deposed Gorbachev and ended with the fall of the USSR and Yeltsin in power.

1993 was a successful right wing self-coup that allowed Yeltsin to fully consolidate power away from the Russian parliament and towards the presidency. More hamfisted and violent, but in essence kinda similar to what is happening in the US right now

If you disapprove of internet companies caving to authoritarian politics, I have bad news for you about Yandex

I wouldn’t exactly call it a children’s story

It’s also because the devs are communists. Let’s not skip that part lol

These guys seem cool but they’re not the archive.org from the op article

Yeah wholesome mom and pop businesses getting eaten by larger, more specialized and efficient corpos is not a flaw, it’s an inherent feature of capitalism. A worker at a specialized firm can manage dozens of apartments for the same salary as your aunt managing just one or two- she stands no chance in the long run. Same for retail stores and most other kinds of businesses really.

The only solution is democracy- having the larger more efficient firm be democratically owned by its workers and accountable to them and through them the community, rather to a cigar chomping investor hundreds of miles away

As a russian I feel this a lot :/