A follow up question: is there a jurisdiction that is hostile to Putin's regime and would not cooperate with Putin's police/special services requests, but not hostile to Russian Citizens willing to do business overseas?
>The Kremlin is perhaps the world’s most prolific abuser of the Interpol notice system. As other governments have found, Interpol notices and diffusions (see “Methods of Transnational Repression”) are low-cost means for the Kremlin to harass and detain exiles.
>The Kremlin’s targeting of financier Bill Browder through Interpol Red Notices has made the tool famous, but it uses the tactic to an extraordinary extent, and often against targets far less prominent.
>Without more transparency at Interpol, it is difficult to determine why or how the Kremlin is able to use its notice system so extensively. Nevertheless, Russia is responsible for a staggering 38 percent of all public Red Notices in the world, while the United States is responsible 4.3 percent and China 0.5 percent.
>Russian authorities have even been able to use Red Notices to detain individuals residing in the United States for long periods of time. For instance, in two separate public cases in the last two years, Russian asylum seekers spent over a year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention based on Russian-sourced Interpol Red Notices.
At this point Russian Interpol participation is corrupted. They are known to try to extradite dissidents on false charges... which are ignored by the Interpol officials.
That's the kind of behavior I'm seeking for a host country.
I suspect many companies are going to be subject to some very lucrative lawsuits later, but for now they are doing exactly this (see this thread, the Namecheap one from earlier).
Apparently China or India may be the main places you can find; personally I'd be a bit cautious with China.
The cat is out of the bag, this stuff will get worse in the future - it is very likely that businesses will need to have multiple payment processors/streams and their customers will need to be flexible.
