Billion-pound palace: Roman Abramovich's Eclipse, pictured, is worth as much as £1billion. Super-rich Russians such as Abramovich could be caught up in rounds of sanctions directed against Russia
Yacht's The Way To Send The Oligarchs A Message: Calls Grow To Impound Russian Billionaires' Luxury Boats In Protest At Shooting Down Of MH17 -- Daily Mail
* Billionaires with links to Putin's Russia flaunt wealth with huge superyachts
* Russian regime currently in international firing line over MH17 jet attack
* Flight, with 298 on board, was shot out of the sky last week
* Western powers are considering sanctions of Russia's centres of power
* Foreign policy experts suggest 'symbolic' sanctions against super-wealthy could influence Putin
The luxury superyachts of billionaire oligarchs could be seized as part of a squeeze on Vladimir Putin's Russia as international outrage builds over the attack on passenger jet MH17.
Foreign policy experts raised the prospect of levying sanctions on the super-rich allies of the Russian president as a way of punishing the country over its links to attack on the passenger jet.
Dozens of wealthy businessmen with links to Putin's government are based outside the country, as are their prized yachts, some of which are worth as much as £1billion.
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My Comment: Conducting such seizures will make the news .... but I doubt that it will have an impact on Russian foreign policy .... and I am sure that it will be deemed illegal in any international court.
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"Conducting such seizures will make the news" of course it will, the western media and politicians think this is real pressure. Let's go to the hidden mikes.
The West: If you don't get Vlad to straighten up we'll take your toys away.
Oligarchs: Oh man, look what they're doing, you've got to rethink this deal.
Putin: It's a boat, you'll get another. Now tell me again, where DO you live and conduct business?
Oligarchs: Oh yeah, we'll get another one, no big deal.
Real pressure.
James .... you would fit in the Kremlin perfectly. :)
Do you think I could survive blood freezing, deadly, Brezhnev unibrow curse?
The Brezhnev unibrow curse .... James .... now you are getting really personal.
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