Quote from: Lucius on July 04, 2020, 12:41:49 PM

Quote from: act now on July 03, 2020, 11:01:10 AM

What a nonsense!
You do not understand what sanctions mean. Sanctions disallow some certain operations for some certain bank or institution. Did you take a look at "the sanctions that Russia has"?

Please read the original as you studied russian at school:
https://www.rbc.ru/economics/31/07/2014/570420109a794760d3d40648

VTB was denied from european credit market, political target was to limit Russia to get currency from abroad but not to control every single operation of every russian tourist Grin

What a 5-point score for you, congratulations in an attempt to portray Lucius as a fool who doesn't know what he's talking about Wink

Maybe you should look at the meaning of the word tourist and compare it to someone who is permanently resident in a country. A Russian tourist cannot come to France, Germany or the UK and be a tourist for a year legally, and whether anyone will be suspicious that a tourist from Russia uses his card in those countries all year round without actually ever leaving his country is a question for those dealing with the prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing or tax evasion.

Since some consider this service to be something completely legal and normal, I will try to seek the opinion of some relevant participants in the whole story - so I will start from the bank that issued the card, and various EU agencies that deal with such things.

Let me know please that pan european agency that controls residence/non residence status of all people in EU and then matches VISA/Mastercard transactions against that data? Do you really think it is possible, especially in terms of privacy regulations? Shocked

My relative has obtained a residence permit in Poland and state authorities could not even check without his passport stamps how many days a year he stayed in EU.
What a nonsense!
Do not mislead people on the forum, your hypothesis is not your experience.