HBO’s ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Is Latest Anti-Russian Cold War Propaganda - by Max Parry • 26 Aug 2020
Trailer - https://youtu.be/GlKkj_aHMXk In 2017, explosive allegations first emerged that the authorities of the Chechen Republic were reportedly interning gay men in concentration camps. After a three year period of dormancy, the accusations have resurfaced in a new feature length documentary by HBO Films entitled Welcome to Chechnya. Shot between mid-2017 and early last year, the film has received widespread acclaim among Western media and film critics. Shortly after its release last month, the Trump administration and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an increase in economic sanctions and imposed travel restrictions against Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his family, citing the putative human rights abuses in the southern Russian republic covered in the film. Most of the boilerplate reviews of Welcome to Chechnya have heaped particular praise upon the documentary’s novelty use of ‘deepfake’ technology to hide the identities of alleged victims in the cinematic investigation. Yet at the closing of the film, one subject who previously appears with his likeness concealed by AI reveals himself at a news conference without the disguise—rendering the prior use of synthetic media fruitless. Maxim Lapunov, who is not even ethnically Chechen but a Russian native of Siberia, is still the only individual to have gone public with the charges. Despite the obvious credibility and authenticity questions regarding the use of such controversial technology, it has not prevented critics from lauding it unquestioningly. Unfortunately, even some in alternative media have been regurgitating the film’s propaganda such as The Intercept, a slick online news publication owned by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar whose financial ties to the national security state and U.S. soft power institutions conflict with the outlet’s purported mission. Notably, The Intercept’s glowing review of Welcome to Chechnya was written by Mehdi Hasan, a journalist who also works for Al-Jazeera, a news agency owned by the ruling emirs of Qatar, a theocratic dictatorship where homosexuality is actually illegal . The documentarians follow the work of a purported network of activists who evacuate individuals like Lapunov out of the Caucasian republic. This is the film’s primary source of drama, despite their encountering seemingly no difficulty from the local authorities in doing so. We are then subjected to random cell phone clips of apparent hate crimes and human rights abuses going on, but at no point does the film crew even visit the Argun prison where the anti-gay pogroms are alleged to have taken place. In 2017, the imperial hipsters at Vice news were given unrestricted access to the facility where nothing was found and the warden adamantly denied the allegations — but not without expressing his own disapproval of homosexuality which was assumed by his interrogators to be evidence of the detentions having occurred. In the HBO documentary, a similar hatchet job is done to Ramzan Kadyrov, whose uncomfortable denial of the existence of homosexuality in the deeply conservative and predominantly Muslim republic is implied to be proof that the purges must be happening. One may recall this same sort of smear tactic was previously done to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However, Kadyrov and the warden’s predictable responses to the subject serve only as confirmation bias, not confirmation. The selective outrage in response to the alleged purges, like all things Russia-related, is highly politicized. Western viewers would have no idea that of the 74 countries worldwide where homosexuality is still criminalized, Russia isn’t among them. In more than a dozen of those nations, same-sex activity is punishable by death, a few of which happen to be close strategic allies of the United States, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. As recently as 2017, the U.S. was one of 13 countries to vote against a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning countries with capital punishment for same-sex relations to avoid falling-out with those allies, most of which have legal systems established on their respective interpretations of Sharia law. While the local authorities of the Muslim-majority Chechen Republic have been allowed to introduce some elements of the fundamentalist religious code by the Russian government such as the banning of alcohol and gambling and requiring the wearing of hijab by women, as a federal subject it is still ultimately beholden to Russia’s secular constitution. In fact, it was Kadyrov’s predecessor, Alu Alkhanov, who hoped to govern Chechnya with Sharia law, not the current administration. Credulous audiences would have no clue that Kadyrov actually represents the more moderate wing of Chechen politics because there is absolutely no history or context provided, a deliberately misleading choice on the part of the filmmakers. The absence of any historical background deceptively suggests that theanti-gay sentiment in the mostly Muslim North Caucasus is somehow an extension of the homophobia in Russia itself, despite the autonomous differences in religion, culture, and society. In the last decade, the weaponization of identity politics has been central to Washington’s ongoing demonization of Russia and its President, Vladimir Putin, with the issue of LGBT rights particularly given significant attention. While homosexuality is decriminalized, there is admittedly no legal prohibition of discrimination against the LGBT community in Russia. In particular, human rights groups have condemned the notorious federal law passed in 2013 known as the ‘gay propaganda law’ that forbids the distribution of information promoting “non-traditional sexual relations” to minors, which entails the banning of gay pride parades and other LGBT rights demonstrations. However, the measure enjoys widespread support among the Russian people whose social conservatism has been resuscitated by the Orthodox Church since the breakup of the Soviet Union. It is rather ironic and hypocritical that the West has since taken issue with this turn, considering it facilitated that political transformation. In reality, the reason for the relentless vilification of Putin has absolutely nothing to to do with the exaggerated plight of gays in Russia and a lot more to do with the reversal of policies under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. In the nineties, the mass privatization of the former state-owned enterprises during Russia’s conversion to capitalism resulted in the instant impoverishment of millions and the rapid rise of the notorious ‘oligarchs’ which the West characterized at the time as progression towards democracy. In the loans-for-shares scheme, a new ruling class of bankers and industrialists accumulated enormous wealth overnight and by the middle of the decade, owned or controlled much of the country’s media outlets. The oligarchs held enormous power and influence over the deeply unpopular Yeltsin, who would surely have lost reelection in 1996 without their backing and the assistance of Western meddling in the form of massive loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While economic disparity and corruption persists today, overall the Russian economy has been rebuilt after its energy assets were re-nationalized and brought back under state control by the Putin administration, resulting in improved living standards and income levels for the last two decades. By the same measure, the Russian people can hardly be blamed for associating homosexuality with the unbridled neoliberalism, vulture capitalism and draconian austerity imposed on their country by Western capital. It is also truly paradoxical that the notion of “Russian oligarchs” has become synonymous with Putin in the minds of Westerners when many of the most obscenely wealthy oligarchs of the Yeltsin era now live in exile as his most ardent political opponents after they faced prosecution for their financial crimes. Not coincidentally, the initial reports of the ‘gay gulags’ in Chechnya were published in Novaya Gazeta, an anti-Putin newspaper partly owned by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the very man who ushered in the economic liberalization which auctioned off the state assets to oligarchs like co-owner Alexander Lebedev. Gorbachev’s reforms, particularly that of perestroika (“restructuring”), also had destructive consequences for the national question and ethno-regional interests. V.I. Lenin had famously called the Russian Empire a “prison house of nations”, in reference to its heterogeneous range of nationalities and ethnic groups. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 especially re-agitated ethno-national conflicts in the Caucasus, a region that had enjoyed several decades of relative harmony and stability under socialism with rights and representation that did not exist in pre-revolutionary Russia. While Azerbaijan and Georgia were granted independence, Chechnya and many other municipalities remained under federal control of the Russian Federation, as sovereignty did not constitutionally apply because it had never been an independent state. Not to mention, its oil and gas reserves are essential to Russia’s very economic survival. The jihadism which plagued the Caucasus was an outgrowth of the U.S.-backed ‘holy war’ in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the brainchild of Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor in the Jimmy Carter administration. It was the Polish-born Brzezinski who not only authored the geostrategy of arming the mujahideen against the Soviets but the efforts to turn Russia’s own large Muslim minority community against them. This was mostly unsuccessful as the majority of its 20 million Muslims (10% of the population) are harmoniously integrated into Russian society, but the Atlanticists did fan the flames of a militant secessionist movement in Chechnya that erupted in a violent insurgency and became increasingly Islamist as the conflict dragged on. For Washington, the hope was that the West could gain access to Caspian oil by encouraging the al-Qaeda-linked separatists rebranded as “rebels” vulnerable to its domination in the energy-rich region. The collapse of the USSR already escalated hostilities between the intermingling ethnic communities of the region, but the antagonisms were intensified by CIA soft power cutouts like the Jamestown Foundation fomenting the secessionist insurrection. As the separatist movement grew increasingly Wahhabist thanks to U.S.-ally Saudi Arabia, its more moderate nationalist faction led by Akhmad Kadyrov eventually defected back to the Russian side. The elder Kadyrov would pay the price when he was assassinated in a 2004 stadium bombing in Grozny during an annual Victory Day celebration, with his son becoming one of his successors. The Kremlin’s support for the Kadyrovs should be understood as a compromise which prevented the more radical Islamists from taking power, which apparently Washington would be happier with running the North Caucasus. What a human rights utopia Chechnya would be as a breakaway Islamic state, under the salafists which during the Chechen wars committed unspeakable acts of terrorism including the taking of hospital patients, theater goers, and even hundreds of schoolchildren as hostages. One can be certain that if there aren’t anti-gay pogroms going on in Chechnya now, there definitely would be without the likes of Kadyrov in power. In the documentary, what the Chechen leader does implicitly acknowledge may be occurring are individual honor killings within families and clans, a social problem common in other Muslim countries such as Pakistan, and certainly not a human rights issue particular to Chechnya. Many instances of honor killings in the Muslim world have included homosexuality as a motive for the extrajudicial killings by relatives of victims believed to have betrayed the family honor. On the other hand, Kadyrov himself has overseen the establishment of unprecedented reconciliation commissions to address the issue of honor culture, blood feuds and vendetta codes of Caucasian tribes. Kadyrov’s promotion of reconciliation has made significant progress in reducing such killings which were rampant during the Chechen Wars as family members would often seek to avenge the deaths of loved ones. Now that the region is in a period of relative stability, peace and economic recovery, with the once devastated city of Grozny now known as the ‘Dubai of the North Caucasus’, the West is suddenly feigning concern over human rights. The swift end brought to the conflict by Putin was another reason for his becoming a target of Washington who had been counting on the balkanization of southern Russia. In a pinnacle of imperial projection, the explanation for Putin’s rise to power has since been revised by the Atlanticists to his having somehow secretly masterminded the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings while director of the Federal Security Service (FSB, the KGB’s successor), as if the neocons hope to deflect all of the longstanding rumors about the Bush administration and the 9/11 attacks onto the Kremlin. Except this Machiavellian conspiracy would be a lot more believable if the Chechen wars had not been going on since the early nineties, with much worse terrorist attacks already having been committed by the separatists, such as the taking of thousands of hospital patients as hostages in southern Russia. Since the end of the Chechen Wars, on the flip side the U.S. has also backed Russian opposition figure and Putin critic Alexei Navalny, a right-wing Islamophobe who has pledged to secede the North Caucasus while comparing its Muslim inhabitants to cockroaches. Despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric and minuscule 2% support among Russians, Navalny has been depicted as a “pro-democracy” and “anti-corruption” campaigner in Western media, who have been crying foul over his recent suspected poisoning in Russia and ensuing comatose airlift to Germany. If only the naive American liberals who read The New York Times and The Washington Post had any idea that Mr. Navalny has far more in common with the dreaded Mr. Trump than Putin does. Meanwhile, the U.S. has already experienced blowback for its nurturing of terrorism in the Caucasus in the form of the Boston Marathon bombings, which recently returned to the news when convicted Chechen-American perpetrator Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence was vacated on appeal last month. In the aftermath of the April 2013 attacks, it was revealed that Tsarnaev’s deceased older brother and co-conspirator Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been radicalized attending seminars financed by the Jamestown Foundation while traveling abroad in Tblisi, Georgia, and the brothers’ uncle Ruslan Tsarni had previously been married to the daughter of high-ranking U.S. intelligence officer Graham Fuller, Brzezinski’s CIA station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the Afghan-Soviet war. It also came to light that ‘Uncle Ruslan’ had previously worked for the CIA-linked United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and established a company called the Congress for Chechen International Organizations which funded Islamic militants in the Caucasus. Despite the astounding ‘coincidences’ surrounding the Tsarnaev clan, Uncle Ruslan was never considered a person of interest by the FBI, who had ignored warnings by the Russian FSB of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s extremism prior to the attacks. Two years before Putin’s election, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the prime mover of the West‘s plan to dominate the globe by using Islam to bring down the USSR in delivering the Soviet equivalent of the Vietnam War, wrote in The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997): “…The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world’s paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power.” Those words were written before the return of both Russia and China on the world stage, developments that have thrown a monkey wrench into Washington’s plans which the Russophobic Warsaw-native did not anticipate in his blueprint for Western hegemony. When the U.S.-backed headchoppers in the Syrian war nearly had control of Damascus, just a thousand miles or so from Sochi, the threat of jihadism returning to the Caucasus became very real. Beginning at the Munich Conference in 2007, Putin had begun to criticize the monopolistic expansion of NATO on Russia’s borders — but after the subsequent overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi where Moscow witnessed Libya transformed into a hotbed of terrorism like post-Saddam Iraq, the prospect of the same happening in Syria was an existential threat that could not be tolerated. In mainstream media, reality has been inverted where Moscow’s self-defense has been portrayed as expansionism, even though the so-called “annexation” of Crimea was virtually nonviolent compared to the Nazi junta initiated by Washington in Ukraine and the Russian-speaking people of Donetsk and Luhansk who voted to join Russia did not wish to end up like those massacred in Odessa. Besides, is the U.S. not currently annexing northeast Syria? The Crimean parliament and Syrian government invited Moscow, while the same cannot be said for the US presence in violation of international law. Those with no respect for the sovereignty of nations in Washington would prefer Americans to see Russia as an adversary. During the Cold War, the threat was communism, but with capitalism restored in Eastern Europe, it became necessary to manipulate liberals into perceiving Russia as a ultra conservative regime. They must also keep Americans from knowing the true history of US-Russia relations — that Russia was the first nation to recognize American independence when Catherine the Great’s neutrality during the Revolutionary War indirectly aided the Thirteen Colonies in their victory against the Loyalists and Great Britain. During the War of Independence, the Russian Empress had maintained relations with the U.S. and rebuffed British requests for military assistance. The Russian Empire also later helped secure the Union victory during the Civil War, with an Imperial Navy fleet off the shores of the Pacific preventing the Confederates from landing troops on the west coast and deterring intervention by the British and the French. Then as Allies in WWII, while the U.S. was victorious in the Pacific, it was the Soviets who truly won the war in Europe, a feat the Anglo-Americans are still trying to take credit for to this day. Unfortunately, despite his promising rhetorical embrace of détente with Moscow that has made him the subject of political persecution, Donald Trump has proven to be every bit as hostile toward Russia as his forerunners. With the latest actions taken by his state department regarding Chechnya that are right out of the Brzezinski playbook, the idiom that “the more things change, the more they stay the same” certainly applies to Washington and US-Russia relations. *Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst. His writing has appeared widely in alternative media. Max may be reached at [email protected]
With the front settled on the banks of Dniepr, the Ukrainians living in the east had to settle into their new occupation. With peace came some form of stability, and in the cities, some were happy that they had been spared of the Azov regime in West Ukraine. Most, however, were bitter. The Russians had come to occupy Ukraine, and no matter how much the “Ukrainian SSR” tried to hide it, the Russian filled ranks of their military and the Russian leaders of the UkSSR gave away their true identity. Support for communism was not particularly widespread either. To put it simply, the Ukrainians living under the UkSSR were greatly disgruntled. Villages and towns are hotbeds of resistance. A number of groups began to form resistance movements in the countryside not long after the occupation. These groups range from Ukrainian nationalist groups to smaller, but better equipped, trained, and motivated ultranationalist groups. Nationalist Ukrainian groups attack UkSSR and (to a lesser extent) Russian patrols and convoys throughout rural areas. While rarely doing any real damage, Ukrainian nationalist insurgents are able to inflict a few casualties if any on convoys and patrols. This harassment, while not costing the UkSSR and Russians many lives, is costing them time, bullets, and resolve. These harassing forces are usually organised enough to be able to put together a formulated retreat plan, but the UkSSR and Russians occasionally kill a few. The ultranationalist groups are far different. These are groups of mostly ex-Ukrainian or even ex-Soviet servicemen fanatically devoted to the Ukrainian nation and strongly opposed to the Russian occupation. Well trained and equipped, organised into effective fighting forces led by combat-experienced and competent officers, and strongly motivated, these groups are nothing to mess around with. The groups are heavily fragmented and divided deliberately to keep each group local and self-sufficient and organised into loose regional alliances. They name themselves such things as the tame “Poltava Division” and the fear-inducing “Stepan Bandera Battalion”. These groups have wide access to small arms and plentiful munitions stocks and some even have limited access to heavier weapons such as heavy machine guns, anti-tank weapons, and there has even been a reported usage of an ATGM on a UkSSR convoy outside of Kharkiv. This loose association of insurgents names itself the Українська повстанська армія (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) or UPA after the organisation of the same name in World War 2. The UPA has inflicted a great many casualties on the UkSSR and even some casualties on the Russians. One major confrontation has already occurred in the village of Lysycha in Poltava Oblast. A platoon passing through was ambushed on both its front and rear and wiped out in its entirety by a contingent of the UPA. The group calling itself the “Death Host” posted online a video showing the execution of some six prisoners taken in the engagement, with the prisoners laid down in a ditch and sprayed with automatic rifle fire from a number of UPA insurgents. This event, known as the “Lysycha Massacre” has been seen as a symbol of resistance amongst the Ukrainian population under occupation, and a symbol of the disgusting and uncivilised nature of the UPA by the Russian population of the UkSSR. Reprisals for this attack were harsh, the Somali Battalion infamous for its war crimes in Donbass deployed to the area under orders from their commander. Reports from the area are conflicting, but it’s generally accepted that the Somali Battalion tortured a few men to death trying to uncover details on the Death Host. Counter insurgent efforts have been difficult however as the local populace is not cooperating. The Death Host responded to the torturing by kidnapping a Somali Battalion soldier and killing him, decapitating him and impaling his head on a pike in the centre of Shchaslyve. The Ultranationalist groups are being supplied somehow, however, most believe that this source mostly consists of civilian collections and old military stocks. The groups have raided some UkSSR military depots with varying levels of success, however, the decentralised nature of the UPA means that often groups struggle to coordinate attacks on depots and no one cell is strong enough to raid depots with favourable odds. The local population is supportive of local nationalist groups mostly, however, the Ultranationalists see moderate support from the local population at worst, and not many people are willing to sell out the UPA to the UkSSR. Opposition in the cities is of a more moderate background. Regular protests are being held in spite of martial law like conditions in cities such as Kharkiv, Kherson, Poltava, and Chernihiv. Civil disobedience is widespread, most Ukrainians refuse to pay tax into the UkSSR or recognise the authority of the Militsiya or UkSSR courts. Terrorist activities are occurring, however, in cities such as Kharkiv where the Malyshev factory was seriously damaged in a car bomb attack. A van parked within the premises exploded with an extensive amount of explosives and tore a massive hole into the side of the main tank assembly building, collapsing a section of the roof and damaging much of the machinery. A terrorist group known as the Kharkiv Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack. Terrorist attacks in East Kyiv, East Dnipro, East Zaporizhzhia, and the border city of Kremenchuk are common and serious threats to order. Entire sections of these cities are no-go areas for the regular Militsiya and can only be patrolled by militarized units, who are still nonetheless heavily (peacefully) harassed by the local population. Crime is at a record high as the Oligarchs have been forced to go underground. Without their legal possessions, they have turned their gangs into very illegal criminal enterprises. Arms smuggling is currently the hot prize and the gangs have been more than happy to supply whoever is willing to pay. The oligarchs have all located west, and are under strong protection all while managing their criminal empires on the left bank of the Dniepr. The Militsiya is still a new organisation and is ineffective at dealing with the Oligarchs, while the NKVD are getting nowhere thanks to civilian cooperation with the gangs. The gangs have utilised their hit squads effectively, fighting for Ukraine (for a price, of course) by assassinating local officials and military commanders. These gangs control much of the drinking and gambling industry, as well as the sex industry, and have used these activities to fund their activities - in part thanks to patronage from UkSSR personnel. The illegal drug network is controlled by the oligarchs as well, and dealers have been developing connections with the local UkSSR military units, offering them substances such as cocaine and heroin. This has had a small detrimental effect on the state of the UkSSR’s military forces in the occupied areas. In a further threat to the UkSSR, the Russian vision of the Donbas rebellion has been lost. While most people, including Russians, in Donetsk and Luhansk mostly supported staying with Ukraine with greater powers, much of the military forces were made up of Russian nationalists who sought to join Russia one day. The new “Ukrainian” government means little to them, and they don’t feel they are fighting for what they originally agreed to take up arms to defend. Some of the UkSSR’s most experienced men, soldiers who had served in units such as the Sparta Battalion, Vostok Brigade, and Oplot Brigade have begun deserting their posts and abandoning the military. There are talks of mutiny in some units, and even worse there are rumours of officers and commissars being fragged - though these could very well be false. There are talks amongst Russians in Donbass of fighting another rebellion or petitioning Russia to annex the UkSSR. Ukrainian recruits in the forces have been unmotivated and unresponsive to Russian commanders for the most part, and are proving themselves to be second-rate soldiers to their Russian counterparts. Desertion amongst Ukrainian units is high. While the state of West Ukraine is not good, East Ukraine faces problems of an equal magnitude. The state is far from stable and will perhaps collapse if action is not taken to fix its severe fundamental issues. This Modevent was written for the team by u/macmillan_the_first who submitted it. It was then checked for bias and edited before being posted.
Gambling in Ukraine – Ukrainian Parliament decided to legalize Casino Business again
The draft law introduces comprehensive regulation of the gambling market in Ukraine The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported draft law No. 2285-d “On state regulation of the organization and conduct of gambling” as the basis in the first reading. 260 members of Parliament supported the document. The draft law introduces comprehensive regulation of the gambling market in Ukraine and exclusive list of gambling activities permitted in Ukraine. Highlights of the law about Casinos in Ukraine The provision on the possibility of locating slot machine halls and betting shops in separate buildings is excluded. Gaming machines are allowed to be placed only in hotels. The draft low introduces system for licensing gambling activities with a differentiated fee for licenses depending on the type of activity, location of a gambling establishment and the like; stringent requirements are established for the financial condition of gambling organizers in order to ensure their financial stability and ensure payment of winnings. The document establishes special requirements for the compliance of gambling equipment used for gambling with generally accepted international standards; the basis is being created for introducing restrictions on the activities of operators that are not registered in Ukraine and do not have appropriate license. It should be stressed that they plan to increase minimum age of gambler – from 18 to 21, as well as establish requirements for gamers and their identification, which will help to prevent the negative consequences of participation in gambling, in particular, persons under the age of 21, and tough financial sanctions for failure to comply with such requirements. The draft law suggests creating a register of self-restrictions of persons and of those who have other restrictions imposed. As a result, the future law makes it possible to limit participation of certain person in gambling for a period of 6 months to 3 years. The bill provides that regulation in the field of gambling is carried out by a special body – the Commission for the Development and Regulation of Gambling, which is subordinate to the Cabinet of Ministers. The domain of competence of the commission includes licensing of gambling organizers, maintaining relevant registers, establishing requirements for certification of relevant gambling equipment. The document introduces online monitoring system, which will allow for state control of the activities of the organizers of gambling by receiving data from the gaming equipment of the organizers of gambling, which is connected to a single system. The document also stipulates the creation of a special Fund in the state budget to support medicine, sports and culture. In addition, restrictions on the advertising of gambling are established; in particular, bill bans outdoor advertising, except for signage, and imposes restrictions on all other types of advertising. Regulation of selected gambling activities 1) casino gambling establishments: limited casino operation mode is established, including locating facilities exclusively on the territory of buildings of five-star hotels with appropriate number of rooms for different territories; at this the area of such institutions should be at least 500 square meters; 2) betting and gambling online: the draft law authorizes betting activity online or in betting shops. In addition, the bill establishes special requirements for gaming equipment and its certification for betting shops; 3) gambling online, certified online system and mandatory connection to the online monitoring system, website with .UA domain and the ability of each player to set voluntary restrictions on money and time are provided; 4) slot machines: limit on the number of slot machines is established – up to 40,000. The right to place these machines is exercised through electronic auctions with reference to the corresponding territory. The bill also sets requirements for slot machine halls (only in three, four and five star hotels). 5) lotteries: the bill suggests three licenses for the issue and holding of lotteries, which is used in many countries of the European Union and other foreign countries to stimulate the development of the lottery market. Such an approach will make it possible to attract large international companies in the field of lottery activities, introduce generally accepted international standards, attract investment in the country’s economy, increase the confidence of players in the field of lottery activities, etc.; 6) poker: allowed online; the draft law sets requirements for premises and special rules for holding poker tournaments. Now it is difficult to say exactly when casino will be allowed in 5* Hotels in Ukraine, since the bill is still being finalized. However, we can certainly hope that gambling business will again become more open and legal in Ukraine. In 2010, Ukraine completely banned gaming activities and all casinos were closed. Yes, if you travel to Ukraine in 2020, you can visit the casino, there are none, even in 5 star hotels. However, you can enjoy nightlife Of Ukraine: Guide to the nightlife of Kyiv https://guideme.com.ua/tour-item/kiev-bar-crawl/ Guide to the nightlife of Lviv https://guideme.com.ua/tour-item/lviv-nightlife-tou Source: guideme.com.ua Gambling in Ukraine
For anyone wondering why they can't gamble nor buy coins.
Rockstar has disabled gambling and coins purchasing in all countries which have a strict policy of anti gambling. You have no way to alter or bypass it unless you use a VPN. EDIT: I did mention you can go ahead and use VPN and bypass it but i don't recommend doing so, You risk yourself being banned. List of countries that have anti gambling policy:
Afghanistan
Algeria
American Samoa
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh – land-based gambling is illegal
Barbados – land-based gambling is illegal
Bhutan
Brazil – land-based gambling is illegal
Belarus
Cambodia – gambling is illegal for natives, but land-based gambling is legal for foreign visitors
Cayman Islands – land-based gambling is illegal, and online local casinos are banned, whereas foreign slots are not
China
Cuba
Cyprus – online sports betting ok with a license
Czech Republic – majority of online gambling is illegal (except online lottery and online sports betting)
Ecuador – land-based gambling is illegal
France – online casino gambling is not legal, but the rest of online gambling is ok – land-based is legal
Greece – some online gambling is illegal
Guam – land-based gambling is illegal
Guatemala – land-based gambling is illegal
Iceland – online casino gambling and online poker illegal – offline gambling is legal
Italy – some online casinos are banned
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan – land-based gambling is illegal
Jordan
Kuwait
Kyrgyztan – land-based gambling is illegal
Latvia – some online casinos are banned
Libya
Lithuania – some online casinos are banned
Luxembourg – illegal online other than sports betting and online lottery
Maldives
Mali – only legal for foreign visitors
Mauritania
New Zealand – local casinos banned online, but foreign aren’t
Norway – land-based gambling is illegal
Oman
Pakistan
Palau – land-based gambling is illegal
Poland – everything but online sports betting is illegal
Qatar – land-based gambling is illegal
Russia – online casino gambling and online poker is legal, but the rest is illegal
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Turkey – everything but online sports betting and online lottery is illegal
Tuvalu
Ukraine – everything but online lottery is illegal
United States – online operators and some online casinos are banned (each law is different per state)
How A CIA-DOJ-FBI Team Forged The Trump-Russia Dossier
...To the shock and dismay of those crooked bureaucrats, the credibility of the Trump-Russia Dossier is collapsing now that the House Intelligence Committee has disclosed that veteran Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Genesoke Ohr was in secret contact with the report’s British author Christopher Steele. It’s also surfaced that his colleague-wife Nellie Hauke Ohr, a CIA analyst, worked for months prior to the presidential election on salary at Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired for the faked report on Trump’s alleged Russian connections, a hit job paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), although the source of funding was likely a secret slush fund in the Clinton Foundation. Here, the relationships between the members of the dossier team are laid out in chronological order (despite numerous missing links due to their bureaucratic secrecy). The conspirators are frequently referred to as spies, operatives, agents and traitors due to willful violation of their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution, as required of management-level personnel at the CIA, FBI and DOJ. Of course, these treacherous government bureaucrats did not act on their own but are minions of the Democratic Party leadership and its organized-crime benefactors. Moscow Mules The Ohrs’ relationship with the retired MI-6 spy Christopher Steele, the supposed author of the Russia Dossier, began at least than three years ago, long before Trump contemplated a presidential bid and in all likelihood much earlier during the FIFA soccer investigation. In his role as Assistant Deputy Director at DOJ, Bruce Ohr met Steele in Russia in mid-May 2013 at the third St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. The Korean-American Ohr presented a paper titled “Criminal Matters and Allegations of Crimes in International Arbitration”, a choice of topic timed to undermine Russian counter-claims in the Magnitsky affair. In hindsight it’s ironic that his lecture synopsis included an apt description of the yet to-be drafted Russia Dossier: “a party (in a dispute) may introduce false testimony or forged documents.” At the time of that annual conference sponsored by the Russian Federation’s Justice Ministry, the Kremlin was locked in a controversy over U.S. congressional retaliation for the 2009 prison death of Russian-Jewish accountant Sergei Magnitsky. As auditor for Hermitage Capital, co-owned by British-American financier Bill Browder, Magnitsky was investigating dozens of Russian tycoons allied with President Vladimir Putin as to their links with organized crime figures. Who paid for this monumental survey remains unclear, although a likely conduit of funding was the MI-6 team in Moscow, which had been led until his retirement by agent Chris Steel. Federal attorney Bruce Ohr was then chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, which had a keen interest in shady “businessmen” who were moving their capital holdings into American financial institutions and the U.S. real-estate market with the intent of money laundering. Surveillance of transnational drug-trafficking was also part of his role as head of DOJ’s international drug-trafficking investigations. (His cyber-surveillance network would later focus, outside of its authority, on the activities of Trump adviser Carter Page in Russia and Croatia.) Agent Steele was in attendance at St. Petersburg due to the fact that a Russian Interior Ministry official had filed a lawsuit in London against Hermitage Capital. This Russian attempt at legal judo in a British court was prompting the UK Foreign Office to patch up diplomatic relations with Moscow and depoliticize crime issues. With the Magnitsky affair gradually simmering down, the next target for Anglo-American intelligence cooperation was the upcoming Moscow and St. Petersburg event-planning visit, scheduled for just a month later, by Miss Universe impresario Donald Trump. Under the Church Committee rules, U.S. intelligence agencies are banned from spying on American citizens abroad, and therefore the private-eye surveillance by Steele, a Briton, was negotiated to keep watch for possible Russian mafia involvement in the high-profile beauty contest. As it turned out, Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2013, meaning Ohr had wasted a lot of American taxpayer money on a wild goose chase. That dated information from 2013 was recycled three years later into the Russia Dossier. Orbis London As part of Five Eyes intelligence cooperation between Anglo-Saxon countries, the DOJ/FBI cooperates with the UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) during investigations within the Commonwealth and the EU, much like the fictional partnership of the CIA’s Felix Leiter and James Bond. Not much earlier, in 2006, Steele served as head of the MI-6 Russia desk. On his retirement from government service in 2009, he co-founded a for-hire investigative firm called Orbis Business Intelligence, which produced a series of 100 reports on the Ukraine-Russia crisis, which erupted in 2014, on contract with the U.S. State Department. In other words, the main author of the Trump-Russia Dossier had a lucrative contract under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before her presidential campaign. There is a strong possibility that Bruce Ohr met Steele as early as 2010. The FBI, which in international operations is synonymous with DOJ, traveled to London for a briefing by Orbis on the Sepp Blatter corruption scandal at FIFA. The Feds were interested in the role of organized crime in match-fixing as related to worldwide online gambling. The score-rigging was allegedly arranged by a Singaporean syndicate and Malaysian-Macanese gambling boss Paul Phua, who was later entrapped by a joint CIA-DOJ/FBI sting operation at the Las Vegas Sands. As chief of the DOJ international organized crime bureau, Bruce Ohr likely attended the London briefing, where he would have been first introduced to veteran spy Christopher Steele. Married to the CIA Before proceeding, mention must be given to Nellie Hauke Ohr’s role as a CIA analyst. Bruce Ohr shares his “room with a view” at the Robert F. Kennedy Building, the DOJ headquarters, with his wife Nellie, which indicates that the married couple are part of a high-level inter-agency intelligence team. Ohr’s office is on the executive 4th floor, just four doors down from the suite of then Deputy Director Sally Quillian Yates, and since late April her replacement Rod Rosenstein. A virtual unknown to the press and public, the low-visibility Ohr served as the assistant to Rosenstein, following the latter’s transfer from the Maryland DOJ office, showing the newcomer the ropes and keeping watch on him on behalf of Yates, Loretta Lynch, Holder and, ultimately, Barack Obama and the Clintons. Ohr, in short, is a partisan watchdog for the Democratic establishment, who’s shown absolutely no respect for the Constitution. The role of the Ohrs in joint operations and surveillance reveals how the CIA (whose charter forbids spying inside the borders) has operated a secret system of control over domestic law enforcement and, through it, the judicial branch. There are only five stories inside the RFK Building, the topmost housing the draconian tribunal known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Since these are the same ilk of insiders behind the series of unjustifiable wars, the 911 sabotage and assassination of the Kennedys, the building’s name is a warning to anyone who dares contemplate a challenge to the hidden alliance of organized crime, politicians and federal agents. The elimination of this cabal cannot be done piecemeal; they all must be knocked in a single sweep, as discussed below. The Ohrs are two operatives inside the very heart of a system of perpetual treason, far more dangerous to the principles of American democracy that the Rosenbergs who got the electric chair for much-lesser crimes. After examining their role in producing the dossier, this essay will go up the leadership ladder to identify their superiors. Out of Africa Espionage is a family tradition for Nellie Ohr, much as his maternal lineage has been for Barack Obama among the CIA’s Dunham clan of Honolulu. Her mother Kathleen Armstrong Hauke was a Cold War liberal and promoter of racial integration in Atlanta, where she wrote biographies of pioneering leftist black journalist Ted Poston. Later in the late 1980s, Kathleen taught English in Nairobi, Kenya (two decades after Ann Dunham met her paramour Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya while on CIA assignment) Race-mixing was not solely an individual choice in that era, not when the CIA actively promoted interracial marriages in competition against the Soviet Union’s propaganda of racial equality. The American South and Africa were two battlegrounds where mixed-blood youths, like Barack Obama Jr., were groomed as leaders by either side of the Cold War. The 2004 obituary of Kathleen Hauke mentioned that her daughter Nellie was a resident of McLean, Virginia the (township of the Langley neighborhood location of CIA headquarters). Fluent in the Russian language and Russophile, Nellie Hauke Ohr recently applied for a ham radio license, probably to maintain communications (external to hack-vulnerable cyberspace) with her anti-Putin contacts in Russia funded by the CIA and Soros. This apparently is in anticipation of Trump’s cut-off of US funding for those clandestine subversive operations. Shortwave radio hearkens back to the late Cold War era, when Nellie would have monitored Russian signals for the CIA. Since that Stone Age for telecommunications, Nellie Ohr became part of the CIA cyber-intelligence program known as Open Source Works (OSW), discussed below, which explains her intelligence role inside Fusion GPS, the private investigation group that hired Orbis and Christopher Steele to draft the Trump-Russia Dossier. What a tangled web they weave! The Ohr-Steele encounter in St. Petersburg turned out to be the very seed from which sprang the Trump-Russia Dossier, in a handshake between the DOJ/FBI and MI-6. Just a month later, in June 2013, Donald Trump arrived with his advance team to make the arrangements for the Miss Universe pageant, scheduled for November 2013 at the Crocus hall in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk. Plausible Deniability of Authorship Fusion GPS, the private investigation firm led by three former Wall Street Journal reporters, was hired by two different clients to go after Trump: - First, in late 2015, the Washington Free Beacon, owned by conservative financier and LGBT supporter Paul Singer commissioned a probe of Trump to bolster the candidacy of Marco Rubio (who has since been outed with allegations of his gay nightlife), but this early stab at Trump did not involve Russia; - Next in mid-2016, the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie, representing the Hillary Clinton Foundation and Democratic National Committee, hired Fusion GPS to probe the Russian relationships of Trump and his associates with the aim of discrediting and defeating his presidential campaign. By the Democratic National Convention, rigged against rival Bernie Sanders to guarantee the nomination of Hillary Clinton, her campaign team had foreknowledge of the Russian preference for Donald Trump, and the source of that information was obviously the CIA-DOJ team, which included the Ohrs. Besides intelligence gathering from Russian sources, Open Source Works also had the technical capability to launch cyber attacks against the DNC, leaving behind bread crumbs from a faked Russian hack. This illicit political invervention also had support in London, Moscow and Kiev, due to the DOJ-FBI and State Department contracts with Steele’s Orbis Intelligence group. In reality, there probably was next to nothing in direct Russian involvement. One of the supposed Russian-sponsored “fake news” centers turned out to be a USAID-Soros dominated region in Macedonia. On closer inspection, the entire Russian election interference is turning out to be an false-flag creation out of Langley and the RFK building. An Agency Cut-out Fusion GPS, therefore, was hired as a “cut out”, spy terminology for a neutral go-between created to shield the actual perpetrators in an exchange of stolen information. A psychological operation aimed at political intervention at this level required the direct involvement of and authorization from CIA director John Brennan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and this was to interfere in the elections in favor of their former colleague at State, Hillary Clinton, and not a matter of national security. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper should have been aware of these illicit activities and was responsible for shutting down political subversion, meaning that he, too, bears some degree of responsibility for the bureaucratic assault on democracy. Fabricating the Dossier Christopher Steele provided some of the intelligence for the dossier, but much of the material strongly appears to be based on CIA and NSA intercepts of phone calls and emails, along with human intelligence from informants. There is also an equally strong possibility that many, perhaps most, of the claims in the dossier are fabrications, lies. Nellie Hauke Ohr and her husband at DOJ reviewed and copied from classified files for the dossier in blatant violation of intelligence regulations. The method of direct translation, for example, “Russian regime” without the article “the”, indicates the CIA protocol followed by Nellie Ohr in radio intercepts. The tiny lapse shows that source is not Moscow but Langley, Virginia. The notes from CIA and DOJ/FBI classified files, which Nellie Ohr compiled during her several months, during summer and autumn 2016, on the payroll of Fusion GPS while in Washington D.C.. Those materials were then “laundered” through Orbis for plausible deniability at the CIA. Fusion GPS paid the London-based firm more than $160,000, meaning the total budget for consultants, services, travel and communication was probably about a half-million dollars from the original source of funding (prior to DNC-Hillary, which was probably provided by a slush fund at the Clinton Foundation. To the heisted CIA material and forged information, Christopher Steele added his recollections from Donald Trump’s Miss Universe visits in 2013, supplemented by whatever hearsay picked up immediately after the contest. Examination of the dossier is similar to the findings from a forensic autopsy on Frankenstein’s monster: A lot of body parts that don’t fit together, laced together and patched with putty. Open Source Works Nellie Ohr’s inchoate and disorganized editing, in contrast to the minimal standards at any daily newspaper, reveals the sloppiness that’s the norm at her post inside the CIA bureau known as Open Source Works, which itself is highly classified and anything but open. In the Gutenberg era, open source referred to media in print, publications, as in “Three Days of the Condor”, which cast Robert Redford as a CIA analyst assigned to reading spy novels in search of leaks of classified information. The category of Open Source has vastly expanded in the Cyber-Age due to the explosive growth of electronic information and data, for example, Facebook pages, blogs and websites, but also any data accessible to hackers, including back accounts, wire transfers, medical records, email accounts, and GPS locations attached to smartphone photos. Private and even classified communications can be made Open Source by illegal interception or hacking and decryption, followed by disclosure through Wikileaks and Wikipedia, thereby scrubbed and transformed into “public information”, which can used to blackmail or silence targeted individuals. Open Source is now the major enterprise of the CIA in its effort to intimidate world leaders, corporate executives, military officers and media personalities. The Trump-Russia Dossier is an end-product of illicit CIA privacy violations, enhanced by selective editing and outright fabrication to incriminate the victim, in this case the President of the United States. The Frank Church amendments need to be upgraded to deal with terror by fake media, so that the offending bureaucrats and their political patrons can be locked away without access to cyberspace. Follow the Money Former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile complained in her new book about being treated by Hillary insiders like a slave and denied a workable budget. Despite the penny-pinching to pay staff and expenses, the DNC and Hillary campaign generously forked over up to a half-million dollars for the Trump-Russia fabrication. The financial bursar for both entities was Dennis Cheng, the secretive mandarin in the shadows, who previously served as chief development officer (fundraising treasurer) of the Clinton Foundation, and also as finance director for Hillary’s Senate race in New York State. Obviously, the non-for-profit Clinton Foundation, against U.S. Treasury regulations for nonprofits, was illegally used a political slush fund and for black operations behind the Trump-Russia Dossier. The DOJ and Treasury Department has never once challenged the fraudulent bookkeeping by Cheng and his staff. The Buck Stops Just how high up does the sponsorship of the Trump-Russia Dossier go? Certainly, due to their management-level positions inside the Justice Department, Bruce and Nellie Ohr did not act on their own volition, not when hundreds of thousands up to millions of dollars were spent for the clandestine international effort to libel Trump and wage psychological warfare though the mainstream media. There are only 6 degrees of separation between the Ohrs and President Barack Obama: Bruce and Nellie Ohr - DOJ Deputy Director Sally Quillian Yates Attorneys General Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder Director of National Intelligence James Clapper White Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and President Barack Obama. Obama had to have known all along, even if the funding came from another (former) president, Bill Clinton. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch insists that her tete-a-tete with Bill Clinton inside a private jet on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport on 28 June 2016 did not touch on the following topics: Benghazi, Hillary’s email server and Brexit. The Attorney General’s list of denials, however, did not include the clandestine project being hatched inside her department, the Trump-Russia Dossier. One question that now remains: Is Attorney General Jeff Sessions being paralyzed by Democrat “kompromat” (the Russian term for compromising material used for blackmail)? If so, he get out of the line of fire and return to civilian life immediately. The near-total breadth and width of untrustworthy lawyers at DOJ/FBI means that the Trump administration has only one recourse: appoint a special crisis team from the military Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) to take over control of the RFK Building in a crisis intervention on grounds of constitution principles. The CIA has long outlived any usefulness it might once have had, and should be shut down. Far more dangerous than any terrorist threat, the culprits behind the current fake news coup against the presidency should all be retired to a 5-star Caribbean resort like the one called Guantanamo. Orange is the new blue. Shackle them. Taken from: http://www.rense.com/general96/howCIADOJ.html
How to Launch an Ecommerce Business Abroad and Earn More
The legal aspects Any ecommerce project is based on internet acquiring – a service by which a business operating online can accept payments, usually from an end user’s payment card. Given how easy it has now become to incorporate virtually any company in virtually any jurisdiction, the corporate structure should be built around acquiring. What does this mean? “From a lawyer’s point of view, the structure of a company (legal entity) is a tool with a specific function. When creating a corporate structure for any business, a lawyer selects and uses solutions that enable the business to perform efficiently and grow. “Mistakes made when incorporating a company can cost dearly and prevent the business from selling its services abroad by restricting its acquiring tools. At best, the merchant will be unable to open an account and he will go and incorporate a new company in a suitable jurisdiction with the required structure. At worst, the merchant’s company will be accepted, but the service will come with higher commissions and the company could lose money for several years.” Choosing a jurisdiction and restrictions on acquiring A jurisdiction (in simple terms) is a country or territory with its own legal system. For example, Hong Kong, various US states and some special economic zones in the UAE are all jurisdictions. Companies are incorporated in a jurisdiction on the basis of its regulations. By choosing a jurisdiction you are simultaneously choosing where the company will be incorporated and what kind of company it will be. Choosing the right jurisdiction is both an important start and half the battle The choice of jurisdiction influences which banks will be able to provide acquiring services for transactions. This is because the laws of various countries and the rules of individual payment systems restrict the acquiring bank’s ability to work with foreign companies. Thus, acquirers from the EU can only serve companies incorporated in the EU, and American banks predominantly serve businesses incorporated in the US. So a company incorporated in Hong Kong will simply be unable to work directly with a European acquiring bank. Payments cannot be made from a merchant account in the same way as they are from a settlement account: a merchant account can only be used to accumulate funds received from credit cards. To gain access to funds in a merchant account they have to be transferred to a settlement account. This usually happens once a week. In addition, whereas in the past a company could open a merchant account in the EU and a current account outside the EU, the rules in this area have now been tightened up. European acquirers can only make payments to settlement accounts within the EU. Before incorporating a company it is important to analyse the structure of the traffic to understand where the main customer flow is from and to take this into account when choosing an acquiring partner. The company (corporate structure) is chosen to fit the type of acquirer. But an acquirer also has to be chosen. This choice is driven by the nature of the business: where your clients are and where the traffic and payments will come from. For example, if a business mainly serves users in the USA, an acquirer in the USA or Canada should be selected. If an American user tries to make a card payment to a merchant account opened in the EU it is likely that his transaction will be blocked by the risk departments of his issuing bank. European acquiring has a high success rate for transactions within the region. For example, if somebody in France buys something via a website with acquiring in France, the issuing banks will have no issues with the transaction as there is nothing suspicious about a Frenchman buying something in a French shop. But if the acquiring is provided by, for instance, a Chinese, American, Hong Kong or any other bank that is exotic for the European region, the issuing bank’s risk department may consider the transaction suspect and block it. Risk assessment Every acquirer specializes in specific types of business in which it knows how to assess the risks and can decide whether or not it is willing to serve a company. Some businesses carry fewer risks, and some more. It is harder for companies working in more high-risk sectors to find an acquiring bank. For example, if a company sells dietary supplements online it will not be able simply to go to any bank and apply to open a merchant account. The acquirer will refuse, simply because it lacks the competence to assess the extent of risk associated with serving that customer. The merchant, therefore, needs to find a bank that specializes in its type of business. Company management Banks place even more rigorous demands on company management. For instance, an acquirer from the EU will open a merchant account only if the company is formally and actually managed by a resident of the European Union. He or she must not be a nominal director nor work for another 100 companies. If the bank comes across any such information it will reject the company. A director must be professional – in other words, unique. Furthermore, VISA and MasterCard have de facto “nominee blacklists” (VMAS for VISA and MATCH for Master Card). If it turns out that one of a “nominee’s” companies is engaged in gambling under the guise of a drapery shop, its account will be closed and the director and principal owner will be added to the blacklist. Almost automatically, merchant accounts can then be closed for other clients who have used the services of the “nominee”, even if they haven’t broken the rules of the bank and associations, together with the company’s accounts with other acquirers. The shareholder structure is also important. Acquirers are also more understanding if the shareholders of an American company are US residents and those of a European company are EU residents. Structuring the business Where a group of companies is concerned, for the business to function normally it needs to be divided into several legal entities and correctly structured, with a division of responsibilities and risks. There are particular aspects to the structuring of an IT business connected, amongst other things, with the way acquiring works. To properly structure such a business you need to specialize specifically in the IT sphere. This is a mistake that frequently affects clients who apply to law firms with little knowledge of the specifics of international structuring, or – and sometimes the consequences of this can be even worse – to law firms that specialize in structuring other sectors of the economy, such as international trade in grain. Such companies may even realize their mistake but continue leading their clients along to keep the businesses. In addition, even if an IT business is not working with acquiring at this stage, it still doesn’t mean that it can be structured like any industrial holding. IT structures really do have many specific features: from the predominance of offshore jurisdictions for handling relations with investors to resolving issues around safety and interaction with multitudes of self-employed programmers in Ukraine. Technical capability Make sure that your acquirer has the technical capability to work with you. Not all banks have sufficiently advanced technical systems. Even if a bank is suitable in terms of its legal and other characteristics, there is no guarantee that it will be able to service the company. Some financial institutions can perform acquiring, but they need processing and a payment gateway, while others perform only acquiring. This means that a settlement account, without which you won’t be able to start processing either, will have to be opened somewhere else. They then work with other companies or recommend them to the client. So where do you start? There are some guidelines for anyone planning to open a company abroad and sell their services to foreign clients. When choosing a jurisdiction, start by analysing your traffic and the acquiring banks’ ability to work with your business. You can get help in choosing the right acquiring tools from specialists who spend all their time doing just that, as things in this areas are changing quickly, laws are being tightened up, and what was appropriate one month ago may not be the best choice today. Choose partners that specialize specifically in your field of business.
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