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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • All banks and bank-like institutions you might have access to will comply with the same anti money-laundering and know-your-customer regulations. It’s not really up to the individual bank to decide.

    The “Swiss bank account” is largely a thing of the past, as they are forced into data-sharing agreements with the United States and possibly others. And even so, you need to be a Swiss national to qualify for a bank account there.

    You can use cash as much as possible when it’s an option, of course. It’s less convenient, but privacy often is.




  • They could realistically have kept Sevastopol and the rest of Crimea if they just hadn’t invaded the rest of Ukraine; now it’s all at stake.

    But even so, if they lose Sevastopol, there are other Russian ports along the Black Sea, notably Novorossiysk. While that’s much less strategically located, and costly upgrades would be required to function as a marine base, it’s not strictly true that they would lose access to the Black Sea altogether.

    Apologies in advance if this is hopelessly armchair, happy to have my amateur observations nuanced.