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Mark Dixon

Mark Dixon is the founder of the Moral Rating Agency, which he created to get companies out of Russia, to get Russia out of Ukraine, and to get Putin out of Russia, by measuring companies’ involvement with Russia under a standardized rating system and then naming and shaming them till they leave.

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Mark Dixon: A global ‘Democratic Market’ is needed to protect democracy

by Mark Dixon
Putin has shot himself in the foot. His recent expropriations of Western companies will actually help the West by damaging the Russian economy. Expropriating the Russian assets of French company Danone and Danish company Carlsberg's Baltika subsidiary is reprehensible, but Putin is unwittingly actually harming Russia. He has bitten the hand that feeds him.   The more links that are cut between Russia and the West, the more the Russian economy will suffer. Russia will find it more difficult to