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100-497: (Redirected from Tinkov ) Tinkoff or Tinkov may refer to: Oleg Tinkov (born 1967), Russian businessman Tinkoff (cycling team) , a Russian-registered professional cycling team Tinkoff Bank , a Russian commercial bank Tinkoff Brewery , a Russian brewery Tinkoff Credit Systems (cycling team) , a professional continental cycling team based in Italy Topics referred to by

200-532: A triune Russian nation . He said there is "no historical basis" for the "idea of Ukrainian people as a nation separate from the Russians". Putin has repeatedly denied Ukraine's right to exist , calling the country "an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space". He claimed that it was created by the Russian Bolsheviks and that it never had "real statehood". Moreover, Putin admitted that

300-450: A "worldview that combines the theory of moral, ethnic or racial superiority, divine mission, imperialism, nationalism, xenophobia, aspiration to superpower, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, anti-liberalism." In an April 2022 discussion, historian Niall Ferguson stated that in his view, "one can compare the regime that now exists in Russia with a fascist regime", going on to assert that "there

400-420: A backdoor through which to return to Russia [...] Fascists calling other people 'fascists' is fascism taken to its illogical extreme as a cult of unreason. [...] [It is] the essential Putinist practice". Based on this, Snyder refers to Putin's regime as schizo-fascism , a term that was also used by Mikhail Epstein who defined the "schizofascism" in Russia or "fascism disguised as a struggle against fascism" as

500-560: A brewer, who supplied beer to the imperial court since 1759, was invented. According to legend, the page mentioning him, was found by Oleg Tinkov in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary . The fake page was presented in the Toponymy Commission of St. Petersburg with a proposal to memorialize the Tinkoff family line in the street name. Officials did not notice the fraud and agreed to

600-484: A court decision on September 4, Roskomnadzor ordered bloggers to remove the video criticizing Tinkov's activities. On September 12, searches were conducted at the co-author of Nemagia, Alexei Pskovitin, and his computer equipment was confiscated. Police strength's workers specially flew to Kemerovo from Moscow. Many Russian bloggers came out in support of NEMAGIA. On September 26, Tinkov withdrew claims against video bloggers from "Nemagia". The criminal case against NEMAGIA

700-484: A credit line for Tinkoff Brewery. For construction of the second plant the company raised the funds through a bond issue, as well as the lkoans from Zenit Bank and the German HypoVereinsbank . The second plant worth about $ 75 million was completely built on credit funds. Tinkoff factories produced Tinkoff beer , Tekiza , and T . While expanding, the company invested significant funds in mass marketing. There

800-509: A document stating that this "holy war" was to defend " Holy Russia " and to protect the world from globalism and the West , which it said had "fallen into Satanism ". The document further stated that all of Ukraine should come under Russia's sphere of influence , and that Ukrainians and Belarusians "should be recognised only as sub-ethnic groups of the Russians ". Patriarch Kirill also issued

900-587: A fascist regime, with a fascist ideology and fascist modes of operations." In the same discussion, economist John H. Cochrane also contended that Russia under Putin has "the same fascist economic model as the fascist regimes, a nominally private industry run by a bunch of oligarch kleptocrats with their own little monopoly sources, who trade vast wealth for political support of the regime." In July 2022, Japanese-American political scientist Francis Fukuyama stated that Putin's regime in Russia more than anything resembles to that of Nazi Germany whose only ideology

1000-497: A fascist state, or that fascism best describes the Russian political system, especially following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2017, Russian academician Vladislav Inozemtsev considered that Russia is an early-stage fascist state, thus claiming the current Russian political regime as fascist. Tomasz Kamusella , a Polish scholar on nationalism and ethnicity, and Allister Heath , a journalist at The Daily Telegraph , describe

1100-539: A large map showing Russia in control of most of the country, with western Ukraine partitioned between other states. According to The Economist , as a political calculation in response to his waning popularity in the early 2010s, Vladimir Putin began to draw more heavily on post-Soviet fascist thinking, concepts which emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union . According to Mark Lipovetsky , Ruscism has become "the cultural mainstream of Putinist Russia". In 2007,

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1200-628: A lecturer at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in the 1990s, and his Foundations of Geopolitics has become part of the curriculum there, as well as in several other military/police academies and institutions of higher learning. According to John B. Dunlop of the Hoover Institution , "[t]here has perhaps not been another book published in Russia during

1300-456: A major role in its growth. The IPO of the bank was listed as one of the largest deals in the 2013 Russian version of Forbes; Tinkov doubled his fortune and took position 1210 in the world ranking of billionaires. On 14 October 2013, TCS had its IPO and several days later Oleg Tinkov renounced his United States citizenship. In the beginning of 2015 Tinkoff Credit Systems changed its name to Tinkoff Bank . The simpler and more concise name

1400-571: A new concept called "Ruscism" will be in history books: This country will have a word in our history textbooks that no one has invented, which everyone is repeating in Ukraine and in Europe – 'Ruscism'. It's not just random that everyone is saying that this is Ruscism. The word is new, but the actions are the same as they were 80 years ago in Europe. Because for all of these 80 years, if you analyse our continent, there has been no barbarism like this. So Ruscism

1500-505: A nucleus of assault brigades ... That's just the beginning." Alexander Yakovlev , architect of democratic reforms under Mikhail Gorbachev , noted the connection between security services and fascism, stating "[t]he danger of fascism in Russia is real because since 1917 we have become used to living in a criminal world with a criminal state in charge. Banditry, sanctified by ideology—this wording suits both communists and fascists." Several scholars have posited that Russia has transformed into

1600-536: A phrase Daria, shoo! in their advertisement campaign. In 2001, Daria was sold to Roman Abramovich and Andrew Bloch's holding company Planeta Management for $ 21 million, of which $ 7 million were used to pay off debt. In 1997 Tinkov could not find an investor for the construction of a brewery . Two meetings helped: an equipment supplier, with whom Tinkoff met at the Drinktec exhibition in Munich , proposed to combine

1700-693: A prayer for Russian victory in the war, and the church has punished or expelled priests who refuse to say it. In late 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) searched churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in multiple Ukrainian cities and oblasts . The SSU found manuals from Patriarch Kirill on how propaganda can be spread through parishioners, as well as pro-Kremlin literature (e.g. by ideologist Ivan Ilyin). From 1999 to February 2020 Vladislav Surkov

1800-562: A quasi-ideology of the post-Soviet imperial revenge" defined Ruscism as a misanthropic ideology and an eclectic mixture of imperial neocolonialism , great-power chauvinism, nostalgia for the Soviet past , and religious traditionalism. Demyanenko considers that in internal domestic policy, Ruscism manifests itself in a violation of human rights along with a freedom of thought, persecution of dissidents, propaganda, ignoring of democratic procedures. While in foreign policy, Ruscism demonstrates itself in

1900-765: A restaurant was opened in Moscow in Protochny lane, the investment in which amounted to $ 2 million. Other restaurants were opened in Samara in November 2002 and in Novosibirsk in January 2003; there were further openings in Nizhny Novgorod , Kazan , Ufa , Yekaterinburg , Vladivostok and Sochi . The first plant was built by the summer of 2003 with the support of Zenit Bank, which opened

2000-456: A result, the Tinkov family's voting rights in the group decreased from 84% to 35%. In February 2022, sanctions imposed on Russia as a result of their 2022 invasion of Ukraine heavily impacted the ruble and Tinkoff's shares crashed. Tinkov lost the majority of his net worth, retaining under $ 1 billion. Tinkov is passionate about road cycling and has the title of candidate in master of sports of

2100-480: A state has no geopolitical meaning", "no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness", that "[its] certain territorial ambitions represen[t] an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". He argued that Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it

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2200-572: A useful conceptualization of Putin's worldview", writing that "we have tended to overlook the central example of fascism's revival, which is the Putin regime in the Russian Federation". On the wider regime, Snyder writes that "[p]rominent Russian fascists are given access to mass media during wars, including this one. Members of the Russian elite, above all Putin himself, rely increasingly on fascist concepts", and states that "Putin's very justification of

2300-578: A violation of international law, imposing its own version of historical truth, the justification of occupation and annexation of the territories of other states. Political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky argues that Ruscism is disguised as anti-fascism , but has a fascist face and essence. Political scientist Ruslan Kliuchnyk notes that the Russian elite considers itself entitled to build its own " sovereign democracy " without reference to Western standards, but taking into account Russia's traditions of state-building. Administrative resources in Russia are one of

2400-420: Is extreme nationalism , but it is at the same time "less institutionalised and revolves only around one man Vladimir Putin ". In February 2023, a Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek stated that "[t]he ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It's Neo-Fascism. They don't use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand

2500-643: Is " sanitary cordon ", which would be "inadmissible". The book may have been influential in Vladimir Putin's foreign policy , which eventually led to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Also in 1997, Dugin hailed what he saw as the arrival of a "genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism" in Russia, in an article titled "Fascism – Borderless and Red"; previously in 1992, he had in another article defended "fascism" as not having anything to do with "the racist and chauvinist aspects of National Socialism", stating in contrast that "Russian fascism

2600-556: Is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes." Another of Dugin's books, The Fourth Political Theory , published in 2009, has been cited as an inspiration for Russian policy in events such as the war in Donbas , and for the contemporary European far-right in general. Although there is a dispute on the extent of the personal relationship between Dugin and Putin, Dugin's influence exists broadly in Russian military and security circles. He became

2700-534: Is a concept that will go into the history books, it will be in Misplaced Pages, it will be [studied] in classes. And small children around the world will stand up and answer their teachers when they ask when Ruscism began, in what land, and who won the fight for freedom against this terrible concept. On May 2, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially recognized Ruscism as the state ideology of Russia. According to

2800-467: Is a personal aircraft Dassault Falcon 7X with the bank's logo on the tail. In September 2015 Tinkov announced that he would invest 250 million rubles in the construction of a hotel and recreational complex in the Elizovo district on Kamchatka , where he often stayed. It was assumed that the launch would happen in the fourth quarter of the following year. In January 2016 it became known that he had abandoned

2900-443: Is considered by some observers to be a major ideological inspiration for Putin. Putin was personally involved in moving Ilyin's remains back to Russia, and in 2009 consecrated his grave. According to Snyder, Ilyin "provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism" in the form of a fascist state, and that today "his ideas have been revived and celebrated by Vladimir Putin". Ilyin's book, Our Tasks

3000-413: Is considered provocative and often leads to disputes and mutual insults. Tinkov wrote two books summarizing his entrepreneurial experience: "I am like everyone" ( Russian : «Я такой как все» ) which was published in 2010 and "How to become a businessman" ( Russian : «Как стать бизнесменом» ), published a year later. In order to promote the brand Tinkoff a story of Porphyry Tinkoff, an ancestor and

3100-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oleg Tinkov Tinkov is the founder of a network of shops of household appliances Technoshock , frozen food factories Daria , brewing companies and network of Tinkoff restaurants. Among less well-known projects – music store Music Shock and the record label Shock Records , which released first albums by bands Kirpichi , and Leningrad , and which worked with

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3200-574: Is this toxic cocktail of Russian nationalism, orthodoxy and imperial nostalgia in the Putin Weltanschauung —world view—which is distinctly fascistic. And if you watch the recent rally in the Moscow soccer stadium , that was a fascist event. And moreover, if you look at the way the Russian troops are conducting themselves in Ukraine, it looks an awful lot like fascism in action — not least the appalling scenes that we've now seen in film clips from Bucha ... Somehow or other, Russia has ended up as

3300-685: The Knife for Frau Müller . Tinkov was the founder and chairman of the Tinkoff Bank board of directors (until 2015 it was called Tinkoff Credit Systems ). The bank was founded in 2007 and as of December 1, 2016, it was ranked 45 in terms of assets and 33 – for equity among Russian banks. In 2019 Tinkov was diagnosed with leukemia. Tinkov was indicted by a US grand jury in September 2019 for willfully filing false tax returns and attempting to evade over $ 240 million in taxes while renouncing his US citizenship. He

3400-475: The 2024 State of the Union Address where he compared Russia under Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler 's conquests of Europe . Timothy D. Snyder of Yale University believes that the ideology of Putin and his regime was influenced by Russian nationalist philosopher Ivan Ilyin (1883–1954). A number of Ilyin's works advocated fascism . Ilyin has been quoted by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and

3500-608: The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkēvičs called the article "ordinary fascism". Timothy D. Snyder described it as a "genocide handbook", and he also described it as "one of the most openly genocidal documents I have ever seen". The Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) officially deems the invasion of Ukraine to be a " holy war ". During the World Russian People's Council in March 2024, it approved

3600-489: The Russian invasion of Ukraine was an attempt to reclaim "Russian" land. Putin describes Russia as a distinct "civilization" and said that it must be preserved through genetics and protected by advanced weapons. He decreed in 2019 that all Russians be assigned "genetic passports" by 2025. On 2 May 2023, the Verkhovna Rada officially defined Putin's political rule as Ruscism and condemned its ideological foundations. During

3700-498: The Russian invasion of Ukraine . "Ruscism," "Rashism," and "Russism" are portmanteaus combining 'Russia' and 'fascism'. They transliterate the term, reflecting English, Ukrainian, and Russian pronunciations. The term was, in the form Russism ( Russian : русизм , romanized :  rusizm ) popularized, described and extensively used in 1995 by President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudayev , who saw

3800-661: The Russians , such as Moscow as the third Rome , which manifests itself in anti-Westernism and supports regaining former lands by conquest. Ukrainian officials and media often use 'Rashist' to broadly refer to members and backers of the Russian Armed Forces . The current usage of the term originated in 1995 during the First Chechen War , but it became more prevalent after the Russo-Georgian and Russo-Ukrainian wars, and it became especially prevalent during

3900-763: The Sports Club of the army and was sent to the border troops. In 1986–1988 he served in the Far East – in Nakhodka and Nikolayevsk-on-Amur . In 1988, Oleg Tinkov entered the Mining Institute university, which had a large number of foreign students and offered promising opportunities in trade. He traded in jeans, cosmetics and perfumery, caviar and vodka. He sold goods from St. Petersburg to customers in Siberia , and from there he brought Japanese household appliances purchased from

4000-531: The Tinkoff Credit Systems Russian team Katyusha was established. In December 2013 Tinkov, through the management company Tinkoff Sport A/C bought a team from the former cyclist Bjarne Riis . Tinkoff Credit Systems sponsored this team from 2012 on. Tinkoff and Katyusha were the only Russian teams performing at the UCI World Tour races. Tinkov takes part in training alongside

4100-499: The University of California, Berkeley . Tinkov met an Estonian , Rina Vosman, while studying at university. Their wedding took place in June 2009 – after 20 years of living together. Their daughter Daria Tinkov studied at King's College London , sons Pasha and Roman at St Edward's School, Oxford . In 1992, Tinkov began to trade in wholesale electronics from Singapore . To simplify

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4200-492: The collapse of the USSR and Russia in 2006–07 makes one think". In 2014, Boris Nemtsov criticized what he perceived as a turn towards "cultivating and rewarding the lowest instincts in people, provoking hatred and fighting" by the Russian regime, stating in his final interview – hours before his assassination – that "Russia is rapidly turning into a fascist state. We already have propaganda modelled after Nazi Germany. We also have

4300-540: The Putin administration threatened to nationalize Tinkoff Bank, and he went into hiding after selling his 35% stake under pressure. In October 2022, he renounced his Russian citizenship, citing the Russo-Ukrainian War and the " Putin fascism " as the reason. Tinkov was born in the village Polysayevo , Leninsk-Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo Oblast in Russian family of a miner and a seamstress. Since

4400-461: The Rada's definition, Ruscism is " militarism , cult of the leader's personality and sacralisation of state institutions, self-glorification of the Russian Federation through violent oppression and / or denial of the existence of other ethnicities, the imposition of the Russian language and culture on other peoples , propaganda of the ‘ Russian world doctrine’, systemic violation of norms and principles of

4500-595: The Russian Army will go further into Ukraine, seizing Kyiv and Odesa , which he called "Russian cities". He also described the invasion as a sacred war against Satan. In 2023, Medvedev threatened to annex the territories of the self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia . In March 2024, during the World Festival of Youth in Sochi , Medvedev described Ukraine as part of Russia, and spoke in front of

4600-685: The Russian Federation , the downing of a Boeing 777 near Donetsk on 17 July 2014, and the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. It appears in the Russian-language song "That's, Baby, Ruscism! [ Orthodox Fascism!]" by Ukrainian composer and singer-songwriter Boris Sevastyanov . The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Humanitarian and Information Policy supports the initiative of Ukrainian scientists, journalists, political scientists and all civil society to promote and recognize

4700-729: The Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev , deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and former Russian president, has been described as a "Russian rashist (Russian fascist)" and the "Kremlin's Nazi" by Ukrainian and American media. He publicly wrote that "Ukraine is NOT a country, but artificially collected territories" and that Ukrainian "is NOT a language" but a "mongrel dialect" of Russian . Medvedev said that Ukraine should not exist in any form and that Russia will continue to wage war against any independent Ukrainian state. He said Ukrainians had to choose between joining Russia or "death". On 22 February 2024, Medvedev said that

4800-406: The Russian state's autocratic political system, ultranationalism and neo-imperialism , militarism , expansionism , corporatism , close alignment of church and state, political repression , use of censorship and state propaganda , and a cult of personality around Putin. Ruscism is described as based on the ideas of the " Russian world " and "special civilizational mission " of

4900-565: The Soviet-era Komsomol . On 26 February 2020, Surkov gave an interview to Aktualnyie kommentarii where he said that "There is no Ukraine. There is Ukrainianism ... it is a specific disorder of the mind, sudden passion for ethnography, taken to its extremes. ... It's a muddle instead of a state ... there is no nation". Russian president Vladimir Putin is known for denying Ukrainian and Belarusian nationhood , referring to Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians as "one people" making up

5000-461: The USSR. In 2005, he created a professional cycling team Tinkoff Restaurants , which later changed its name to Tinkoff Credit Systems and became the basis for the Katyusha team. From December 2013 to November 2016 he owned the cycling team Tinkoff . The Tinkoff Restaurants cycling team under command of coach Alexander Kuznetsov became historically the third Russian professional team. At

5100-568: The age of 12 Tinkov was interested in road cycling, he was a member of cycling clubs at school, and later – at the workplaces. He won in a number of competitions, and in 1984 received the title of a candidate in master of sports. During training camps Tinkov first took up black marketeering, buying hard-to-find goods in Central Asia , and selling them in Leninsk-Kuznetsky. His cycling career was interrupted by military service: he did not get into

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5200-469: The album Nechelovek-vidimka by Knife for Frau Müller . Music Shock published a 320-page book Viktor Tsoi . Pelmeni and other frozen foods were produced under the brand name Daria , named after the Tinkov's daughter. A Greek called Athanasius, who distributed ravioli manufacturing equipment in Russia, gave Tinkov this idea while in the sauna. Production was launched in early 1998 in Peterhof and in

5300-511: The bank. In addition to the increased financial burden, among the reasons he mentioned were the lack of potential for bank-branding, losses for the cycling teams, the absence of reforms in the sport, as well as the long-running conflict between the Union Cycliste Internationale and Amaury Sport Organisation . In its last season the team finished in second place and was finally disbanded in November 2016. Among Tinkov's property

5400-668: The beginning it made products under the trademark Smak under license from the Andrey Makarevich company. After a conflict with the licensor, the brand name changed to Smak St. Petersburg . Economic crisis was the reason for creating its own brand; the new brand helped increase market share. The new plant, which opened in December 1998, at the site of a former Technoshock warehouse on Predportovaya street in St. Petersburg, originally produced only Daria . In addition, Tinkoff made products under

5500-682: The beginning, Oleg himself flew to Singapore, then began to use commercial air freight, but the turning point came when an Indian dealer Ashok Vasmani shipped him a half-container of TVs on credit. Tinkov went on to use container sea freight. Reduced profits from wholesaling pushed Tinkov towards launching his own retail stores. In 1994 Petrosib opened the first store under the Sony label on Maly Prospect of Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg, then another on Marata Street . Petrosib USA opened in San Francisco . Success in retail inspired Tinkov to combine

5600-497: The brands of Tolsty kok , Dobry product and Tsar-batyushka . Daria first became popular due to an advertising campaign in which five billboards in St. Petersburg and two in Moscow showed an image of female buttocks covered with flour and the caption Your favorite pelmeni! . Another commercial included the phrase, From these raviolek you’ll get stomach cramps , which caused the Ravioli company dissatisfaction. In return they used

5700-505: The brewery with a restaurant and focus on the development of the brand; the other supplier suggested that beer be called after Tinkov's family name according to the Bavarian tradition. The initial investment amounted to one million Deutschmarks , and in August 1998 the first restaurant was opened in St. Petersburg on Kazanskaya street , 7. There soon appeared a line for beer in bottles. In 2001

5800-523: The claim was transferred to the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region. Ruscism Ruscism (also Rashism or Russism ), a portmanteau of Russian fascism , is a neologism and a derogatory term which is used by a number of scholars, politicians and publicists to describe the political ideology and policies of the Russian state under Vladimir Putin . It is used in reference to

5900-594: The company's proposal; on 7 July 2003 Tinkoff Lane appeared in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg . On August 8, 2017, the YouTube channel NEMAGIA published a review dedicated to Tinkov and Tinkoff Bank . The video caused a significant resonance in the web. Shortly after its release, on August 28, 2017, Oleg Tinkov filed a lawsuit with the Kemerovo District Court for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. By

6000-402: The current authoritarian Russian political regime as Putin's fascism. Political scientist Maria Snegovaya believes that Russia as led by Putin is a fascist regime. In March 2022, Yale historian Odd Arne Westad said that Putin's words about Ukraine resembled, which Harvard journalist James F. Smith summarized, "some of the colonial racial arguments of imperial powers of the past, ideas from

6100-507: The diagnosis, Tinkov left management positions in his businesses. In 2020 he announced the foundation of his own charity fund for leukemia sufferers. with $ 200 million investment of his own money. Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $ 8.2 billion in November 2021; Forbes estimated his net worth at $ 0.8 billion four months later. After he publicly criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine in April 2022, he said officials of

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6200-462: The first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Russia Yegor Gaidar warned about the rise of post-imperial nostalgia, stating that "Russia is going through a dangerous phase", and making a reference to history by stating "[w]e should not succumb to the magic of numbers but the fact that there was a 15-year gap between the collapse of the German Empire and Adolf Hitler's rise to power and 15 years between

6300-422: The following characteristics: According to Professor Oleksandr Kostenko  [ uk ] , Ruscism is an ideology that is "based on illusions and justifies the admissibility of any arbitrariness for the sake of misinterpreted interests of Russian society. In foreign policy, Ruscism manifests itself, in particular, in violation of the principles of international law, imposing its version of historical truth on

6400-470: The form of a threat to the world order and peace, will remain until there is "a global condemnation of communist/bolshevik ideology as well as its heir – Ruscism and Putinism." On 24 April 2022, Timothy D. Snyder published an article in The New York Times Magazine where he described the history, premises and linguistic peculiarities of the term "Ruscism". According to Snyder, the term "is

6500-527: The interests of sponsors and team owners. Tinkoff also stands for Grand Tour schedule, which will enable the strongest riders to perform at each of them during the season. In 2014, he offered the captain Tinkoff-Saxo Alberto Contador and his rivals Chris Froome , who rode for Sky Procycling and Vincenzo Nibali of the Astana Pro Team 1 million euros each for performing in all three of

6600-537: The international law, sovereign rights of other countries, their territorial integrity, and internationally recognised borders". On May 22, 2023, NATO Parliamentary Assembly officially used the term Ruscism to describe the ideology and practices of Russia in Declaration 482, article 20. Currently, this term is widely used in various international anti-war activities, for example in the "Stop Ruscism" Manifesto. On March 7, 2024, American President Joe Biden has given

6700-483: The last 200 years. The Chechen news website Kavkaz Center featured a regular column titled "Russism", in which around 150 articles were published between 2003 and 2016. The term Ruscism/Rashism ( Russian : рашизм , romanized :  rashizm , Ukrainian : рашизм , romanized :  rashyzm ) became increasingly common in Ukrainian media after the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by

6800-583: The late 19th and early 20th century". In April 2022, Larysa Yakubova  [ uk ] from the Institute of History of Ukraine in her article "The Anatomy of Ruscism" stated that Russia has not reflected on the tragedies of totalitarianism and did not decommunize its own Soviet totalitarian heritage unlike Ukraine . According to her, that was the major reason for the formation and rapid development of Ruscism in modern Russia both among political and intellectual/cultural elites. She also noted that Ruscism, in

6900-416: The major European races. The new line-up had a higher number of foreign athletes and the captain was an American Tyler Hamilton . Successful performances of the team, including these at the stages of the Giro d'Italia in 2008 , attracted the attention of former cyclist Igor Makarov , an owner of Itera corporation. At his initiative and under the sponsorship of Gazprom and Rostekhnologii based on

7000-448: The means of preserving the democratic facade, which hides the mechanism of absolute manipulation of the will of citizens. Russian political scientist Andrey Piontkovsky argues that the ideology of Ruscism is in many ways similar to Nazism, with the speeches of President Vladimir Putin reflecting similar ideas to those of Adolf Hitler . According to Alexander J. Motyl , an American historian and political scientist, Russian fascism has

7100-407: The military action by Russia in Chechnya as a manifestation of the rising ideology. According to Dudayev, Ruscism is a variety of hatred ideology which is based on Great Russian chauvinism , spiritlessness and immorality. It differs from other forms of fascism, racism, and nationalism by a more extreme cruelty, both to man and to nature. It is based on the destruction of everything and everyone,

7200-526: The miners. He brought electrical appliances to Poland and returned with office equipment and supplies, gas cartridges and guns. Tinkov traded together with his future wife and fellow students – Oleg Zherebtsov (later – the founder of hypermarket retail chain Lenta ), Oleg Leonov (future founder of retail chain DIXY ) and Andrey Rogachev (founder of the company LEC and Pyaterochka ). In 1999, he studied at

7300-467: The opening of the first Music Shock store and Jeanne Aguzarova at the second. In 1998 Music Shock was sold to the Moscow company Gala Records . Together with Ilya Bortnyuk, Tinkov launched the Shock Records record label. The label released the debut albums of the bands Kirpichi , Leningrad , Vladimir Dashkevich Symphony based on his music for the film Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ,

7400-476: The post-communist period that has exerted an influence on Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites comparable to that of [...] Foundations of Geopolitics ." According to Euractiv , Russian political operative Timofey Sergeitsev is "one of the ideologists of modern Russian fascism". During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, when the victims of the massacres in Kyiv Oblast became known,

7500-557: The premises of the Tinkoff restaurants to the management company Troika Dialog for about $ 10–12 million. Finally in 2008–2009 the restaurants themselves were acquired by Mint Capital equity fund. On November 18, 2005, on Necker Island , owned by billionaire Richard Branson , Oleg Tinkov presented a draft or his proposal for a future bank. In 2006 he acquired the Moscow Himmashbank and based on it created an online bank, which

7600-631: The project because of opposition from local officials and instead invested in the French Alps . In June of the same year he opened two Tinkoff luxurious chalets called La Datcha : one in the ski resort of Courchevel and the second – in Val Thorens . In 2017 and 2018 there were to be new homes in Forte dei Marmi and Astrakhan . On 3 July 2020 in Vlissingen (Netherlands) the world's first private icebreaker yacht

7700-446: The registration of documents he registered a limited liability partnership Petrosib in St. Petersburg, and then regional companies Petrosib-Kemerovo , Petrosib-Novosibirsk and Petrosib-Omsk and others. Goods arrived in St. Petersburg and from there were sent to the regions, where they were sold with a larger markup. He started with calculators and went on to office equipment, televisions, VCRs and even artificial flowers and trees. In

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7900-663: The shops under one name. Technoshock was opened in 1995 and offered expensive household appliances at the highest prices in the city, but still it was popular. Technoshock was one of the first companies in Russia which began to train its sales consultants. Sergio Gutsalenko, an American of Russian origin, became the president of the company. The network grew rapidly; by 1996 the Technoshock had five stores in St. Petersburg, two in Omsk and Kemerovo and one in Novorossiysk . From 1995 to 1996

8000-501: The state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism." In 2017, Yuliia Strebkova of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute indicated that Ruscism in combination with Ukrainophobia constitutes the ethno-national vector of the more broad Russian neo-imperial ideological doctrine of " Russian world ". In 2018, Borys Demyanenko (Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical University) in his paper " 'Ruscism' as

8100-438: The tactics of scorched earth . Ruscism is a schizophrenic variety of the world domination complex. This is a distinct version of slave psychology, it grows like a parasite on the fabricated history, occupied territories and oppressed peoples. The term was later used by the next president of the Chechen Republic , Aslan Maskhadov who considered Ruscism a variety of fascism, but more dangerous than fascism and existing during

8200-435: The team's athletes and travels to competitions. In honor of Contador's victory in the 2015 Giro d'Italia he painted his hair pink. Tinkov has repeatedly criticized the bureaucratization of professional cycling and its "outdated" sponsorship model. He became one of the shareholders of the project Velon – World Tour Team initiative for the development of professional cycling, organizing more spectacular events, protecting

8300-467: The term "Ruscism" at the national and international levels. By 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, terms like Rashyzm and Rashyst were widely used by Ukrainian military , political , and media circles. Oleksiy Danilov , Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary, prominently advocated for "Ruscism" to describe Russia's aggression, asserting it as worse than fascism: Today, I would like to appeal to all journalists to use

8400-532: The term 'Ruscism,' because it is a new phenomenon in world history that Mr. Putin has created with his country. These are modern-day ruscists, who are little different from fascists, and in fact, have surpassed them. I'll explain why: previously, there was no capability to destroy cities with such a quantity of aerial bombs and equipment; there was not such power. Now, there are entirely different capacities, and they are using them in an inhumane way. On 23 April 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that

8500-413: The time of its appearance it was the only one in Russia. The team was launched in January 2006 at the headquarters at Kutzetnov's Spanish villa. It was composed of members of the Russian national Track cycling team, including Mikhail Ignatiev , Nikolay Trusov , Alexander Serov , Sergey Klimov , Pavel Brutt and Ivan Rovny . Airline Siberia was the joint team sponsorand the team's annual budget

8600-501: The turnover doubled and reached $ 40 million. By 1997 Eldorado stores had arrived in St. Petersburg, which increased competition and reduced profitability. In 1997 Tinkov sold the company to its management, and a year later it was acquired by Simteks . He came out of Technoshock with $ 7 million and invested the sum in the pelmeni business. Along with Technoshock , Tinkov opened a chain of music stores called Music Shock in 1996. Philipp Kirkorov and Alla Pugacheva performed at

8700-520: The war in Ukraine [...] represents a Christian form of fascism ." Snyder followed this article in May with an essay titled "We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist". According to Snyder, "[m]any hesitate to see today's Russia as fascist because Stalin 's Soviet Union defined itself as antifascist", stating that the key to understanding Russia today is "Stalin's flexibility about fascism": "Because Soviet anti-fascism just meant defining an enemy, it offered fascism

8800-483: The website of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published an article by Sergeitsev titled "What Russia Should Do with Ukraine", which was perceived to justify a Ukrainian genocide. It calls for repression, de- Ukrainization , de- Europeanization , and ethnocide of the Ukrainians . According to Oxford expert on Russian affairs Samuel Ramani, the article "represents mainstream Kremlin thinking". The head of

8900-480: The world solely in favor of Russia, abusing the right of veto in the UN Security Council , and so on. In domestic politics, Ruscism is a violation of human rights to freedom of thought, persecution of members of the 'dissent movement', the use of the media to misinform their people, and so on." Oleksandr Kostenko also considers Ruscism a manifestation of sociopathy . Timothy D. Snyder argued in an essay that

9000-445: The world's major stage races. Since 2016 the cycling team races under the name Tinkoff , as Saxo Bank decided not to renew sponsorship past 2015. At the end of 2015 Tinov announced that by the end of the 2016 season he would leave cycling and sell the team. As the sole title sponsor of the team, Tinkov was spending about 20 million euros on it per year, and during his sponsorship invested about 50 million euros in it together with

9100-746: Was $ 4 million. In the 2006 season the team riders won first place in the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles , and Pavel Brutt won the Tour of Greece and the Cinturón a Mallorca . The reason for the team disbanding was the conflict between Alexander Kuznetsov and Tinkov. Tinkoff Credit Systems was founded in the 2007 season on the basis of Tinkoff Restaurants, but with an Italian management and registration. UCI Professional Continental license allowed athletes to participate in all

9200-535: Was a columnist for Finance magazine . Since 2010, the chief editor of the magazine Oleg Anisimov went on to work at Tinkoff Bank and worked with him on the TV show Business secrets with Oleg Tinkoff at the online channel Russia.ru . An interview with Mikhail Fridman in October 2015 restarted production of Business secrets after a two-year break. Tinkov has Facebook and Twitter accounts. His manner of communication

9300-497: Was a first in Russia. Despite setbacks in attracting investment at the start of the project, during the crisis of 2008 the bank showed a 50-fold increase in profits. Tinkoff Credit Systems reduced costs at the expense of marketing which was non-standard for the banking sector and the widespread use of computer processing of the data instead of human labor. For a long time the bank did not attract deposits and used its own capital for lending. Tinkoff's technology platform played

9400-578: Was an influential Russian politician and was dubbed the ‘Grey Cardinal’ and the Kremlin 's main ideologist and also was commonly regarded as the mastermind of Putin's policies towards Ukraine. Surkov helped create pro-government youth movements, including the Nashi Youth Movement , meeting with their leaders and giving them lectures. The Nashi Youth Movement has been likened to the Hitler Youth and

9500-551: Was arrested in London in February 2020 but fought extradition based on a new diagnosis of leukemia making him too unwell to travel. He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay over $ 508 million in unpaid taxes, fines and a fraud penalty, as well as time served and a year's supervised release. In 2021 he had complications after surgery and his chances of survival were estimated at only 40%. By 2022 his cancer went into remission. After

9600-507: Was dropped. In May 2022, Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit against Tinkov. The reason was a comment on Instagram , where Tinkov called Deripaska "an oligarch and a thief." The co-respondent is the owner of Instagram - the Meta company. The amount of the claim is 2 billion rubles. Hearings began on August 16 in the district court of Ust-Labinsk in the Krasnodar Krai . Later,

9700-460: Was even a bad experience of collaboration with photographer and director Oliviero Toscani , author of the United Colors of Benetton advertising campaigns. The Sun Interbrew group had shown interest in acquisition of the Tinkoff factories since, and in 2005 the transaction took place. It paid about $ 200 million for the factories and brand. After that Tinkov did a deal to sell nad lease back

9800-636: Was in 2013 recommended as essential reading for state officials by the Russian government, while What Dismemberment of Russia Would Mean for the World is said to have been "read and reread" by Putin according to The Economist . In 1997, Russian thinker Aleksandr Dugin , widely known for fascistic views, published The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia , a book believed to have garnered significant impact among Russia's military, police and foreign policy elites. In it, he argued that Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as

9900-462: Was intended to better reflect the full range of financial institution services. As of February 2020 Tinkov owned 44% of the bank, and it remained his main project. In December 2020, Tinkov sold 5.3% of TCS Group for $ 325 million, reducing his stake to 35%. He announced his intention to spend part of this money ($ 200 million) to create a fund for the study of leukemia. In January 2021, his remaining shares were converted from class B to class A. As

10000-570: Was launched by Tinkov. The 77 m vessel (also called La Datcha) cost €100 million. It features an icebreaker-class hull, is polar code compliant and offers accommodation for 12 guests. The yacht was available for weekly charters for most of the year. In 2017, Tinkov renounced his American citizenship . Tinkov is one of many Russian oligarchs named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act , CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017. From 2007 to 2010, Tinkov

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