• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t make any sense to me. Someone’s car that they drove to Germany with doesn’t generate any money for Russia at all

      • severien@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Why would they sell in Germany? With sanctions they can probably fetch better price in Russia.

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          1 year ago

          You’d sell in Germany because you get paid in euros there. Unlike rubeles they don’t devalue significantly and universally accepted (unlike yuan or rupee)

          Back in 90-00s it was a booming business, seems its

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      1 year ago

      I imagine that they suspect that those Russians with valuables entering the country are illegally importing them to avoid tariffs.