Since Russia launched its illegal full-scale invasion on Ukraine on Feb 24,2022, 1030 companies stopped their operating in Russia but
224 companies are defying demands for exit or reduction of activities. Some of them like Heineken, Sbarro Pizza, TGI Fridays, and WeWork have lied about exiting and have instead stayed on.
179 companies have postponed future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing business.
151 companies have scaled back some significant business operations but continuing others.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute has also made it easy for you to tell these companies to stop doing business in Russia, by providing their contact info at https://www.emailcontactukraine.com/ .
You can email and/or post on the Meta/Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn of these companies decision-makers to let them know that you dont want them to support Russia's illegal invasion.
You are either ignorant or a supporter of Russia's illegal war on Ukraine.
Geely's taxes fund Russia's war machine. His products, resources, and manpower directly & indirectly assist in Rusisa's illegal invasion and occupatiion of Ukraine.
You're welcome :)
You can also check out this zine's sister zine https://kbin.social/m/BizAgainstRussianInvasion, where we discuss companies that leave trather than support Russia's illegal invasion.
It is hard to feel bad for companies that sponsor terrorists.
Having those terrorists seize their assets is kind of what they were asking for when they decided to mess around.
I just don't understand. These are wealthy multi-national companies. Thye already make plenty of money. Isn't that enough for them and their shareholders? Or do they support Russian imperialism?
Thank you. Leave-russia.org is also a good resource. In this zine and its sister zine BaRI, we use both these resources in addition to credible media sources.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute has also made it easy for you to tell these companies to stop doing business in Russia, by providing their contact info at https://www.emailcontactukraine.com/ .
You can email and/or post on the Meta/Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn of these companies decision-makers to let them know that you dont want them to support Russia's illegal invasion.
To be honest, I only read them and try to think that they might be biased. I’m not the most clever person in the room, and I’ve been fooled too many times and now I try (not very well but at least I try) to think about everything as ‘xx source says this…’ or ‘yy source says that…’ instead of being absolute truths.
But in my experience: most companies care about profits more than morals, so I believe morr the sources that do not contradict that.
You are right that most companies do value profit more than anything else, yet there are some that have gone ahead and ditched their profit off Russia. As for those who value profits, we can exert somepressure on them by not spending our money on their products/services and by embarassing them on SM.
Many consumers who are against Russia's imperialism and unaware that their favourite brand of shampoo support Russia. Maybe when they realise via SM and mainstream they will join as well.
BizAgainstRussianInvasion is a sister zine to this space and names companies that did the right thing, so there are alternatives to choose from. It was created on the premise that if we need choices to be able to choose. It's no good saying boycott Dove, if the person is unaware of brands that chose morality over profits.
Since this space is focussed on actively refusing to support the sponsors of Russia's war on Ukraine, my actions have been to vote with my wallet and to inform businesses that I'm doing so,
Where possible, I choose spend my money on businesses that don't operate in Russia and countries in its axis of evil. Then there's shopping for alternatives to avoid supporting sponsors of Russian invasion. Equally importantly is sharing/communicating these actions both with busineses and within my circle of influcnce (family, freinds, colleagues, shopkeepers, and on SM).
Oooh - I like the idea of informing the businesses you’re doing this. I don’t do that unless I’m reminded to, so I’ll add it to my personal checklist.
Do you have any sources of information you regularly consult to help avoid supporting the war on Ukraine, or places that help you find alternatives? I’d definitely like to be more active in this area.
We created this zine and its sister zine Biz Against Russian Invasion, since most of the information is fragmented. In addition to trawing through news media, I use leave-russia.org and som.yale.edu. Both are sources for this zine.
One effective way is to ask shopowners for alternate brands and tell them why. The message gets passed to the brands we support and to thoe we reject. This method works for online grocery shopping as well.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute has also made it easy to contact companies to tell them to stop doing business in Russia, by providing their contact info at https://www.emailcontactukraine.com/ . We've posted this info in a comment
All nations who buy from Russia contribute to it's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
"The main buyers of the Russian fossil fuel in June 2023 were:
China, which imported mainly raw oil, as well as coal, oil products, LNG and pipeline gas.
India was the second biggest importer of Russian fossil fuel, buying mainly raw oil, as well as oil products and coal.
Türkiye mainly imported oil products, as well as raw oil, pipeline gas, coal and LOG.
The EU was the fourth biggest buyer of Russian fossil fuel in June, buying raw oil (by pipeline or sea to Bulgaria), pipeline gas, LNG, oil products (by pipeline) and LOG. The main importers of Russian fossil fuel in the EU in June 2023 were Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Spain and the Czech Republic.
Saudi Arabia was the fifth biggest importer and bought oil products, raw oil and coal."
The aggression against Ukraine and the brutal actions of the Russian army, including crimes against civilians, urged many international companies and global brands decided to stop their activities in Russia. Economic sanctions imposed on Russia by governments of many countries as well as the withdrawal of private companies from the Russian market are setting the Russian economy under pressure and may help stop the unleashed war against Ukraine.
Practically all Chinese companies continue doing business with Russia. Some of them even expand their operation in Russia, taking advantage of having less competition from the west.
Simply put, we should avoid buying stuff from Chinese companies. Especially for phones, computers and security products. Many of them have backdoors to feed information to the CCP which in turn helps sponsor the Russian Invasion.
Sponsors Of Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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