A Russian billionaire harshly criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin's regime in anInstagram post on Tuesday.
Tinkov sold his stake in the digital Tinkoff bank to comply with the sanctions against Russians. The war in Ukraine was described as crazy by Tinkov in an April 19 post.
I have nothing left in Russia. This is bad for Russia. I was one of the few who was able to build four different businesses despite the regime.
He said that he was proud because he built an American type of business in corrupt and archaic Russia.
It is a pity that my country has fallen into the trap of paternalism and archaism. Tinkov wrote that there is no Russia.
He said that the attempts by the Kremlin to punish him for expressing his honest opinion on the Ukraine war spoke to the dehumanization of the regime.
I did not lose my soul, but I lost everything.
He said that he was pulling his businesses out of Russia because he didn't want the blood of Russian soldiers to be spilled. He said that the conflict was a battle between good and evil and that he was on the side of good.
Good always wins over evil. We were taught that at school.
I don't know how long I have left to live, but I definitely don't want to die with these billions and be a bastard, a coward, and a schmuck.
He told The New York Times that he had concerns about being killed by Kremlin agents. The Tinkoff Bank announced in April that it was changing its name after Tinkov criticized the Russian army and the Ukrainian war, with control of the bank having already been switched to a group of Russia-based directors.
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