The Yale professor who is monitoring companies that are still doing business in Russia following its unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine has upped the ante by reclassifying the list into five categories with the fifth titled “digging in” — or defying public demands for exit.
“The idea here is to bring the Russian economy to a standstill,” Sonnenfeld told MarketWatch. “That’s what Gandhi did [in India], it’s how Ceaușescu was removed from power in Romania, [and] it’s what led to the fall of P.W. Botha in South Africa and led to Nelson Mandela’s freedom. See: Koch Industries breaks silence on Russia operations — and says it will continue to operate its two glass factories there
See also: Facebook, Google, Amazon and more marked Black History Month with fanfare — after donating to lawmakers who blocked voting-rights bills “We’re not going to turn our backs on our people in Russia,” the Racine, Wis., company’s chief communications officer, Alan VanderMolen, told MarketWatch. “We believe we have an obligation to provide them with a livelihood and will continue to do so as long as we are complying with sanctions and the law.”Cloudflare responded to calls to end all of its services in Russia by consulting with government and civil-society experts, according to a blogpost from its Chief Executive Matthew Prince.
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