![]() The Russian teenager is demonstrating better business sense and greater ethical judgment than American corporations, such as social network behemoth Facebook and Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs. But considering DST’s high-level ties to Vladimir Putin’s KGB-FSB police-state apparatus, obtaining Ternovskiy’s airline itinerary must have been child’s play. How did DST know Ternovskiy’s flight schedule? There are a number of ways that DST could have gotten that information, nearly all of which would be illegal in any country where the "rule of law" is more than merely an empty slogan. Ryan Tate at appropriately describes the DST limo episode as "creepy." However, the experience goes beyond "creepy," illustrating the nexus between Russia’s "business" community and it’s intelligence structures. Ternovskiy reportedly has rebuffed DST’s efforts, describing them as "harassing and hounding." Nevertheless, when he arrived in New York, there was a chauffer-driven limo waiting for him, courtesy of Yuri Milner and Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia’s hottest investment company. Ternovskiy didn’t tell anyone his itinerary. So, earlier this year the 18-year-old founder of Chatroullet, a webcam-based conversation website, came to the United States to meet with investors. To get access to cash he needn’t leave Moscow, but he doesn’t want to do business with the billionaire oligarchs tied to the Russian Mafia and Putin’s KGB-FSB machine in the Kremlin. Andrey Ternovskiy, one of Russia’s wunderkind Internet entrepreneurs, is being courted by venture capitalists the world over. ![]()
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