In the south of Amsterdam, activists seized the house of a Russian businessman, the founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh.
They said they were "against war, against the greed of the oligarchs and billionaires, and against capitalist parasites." Squatters hung banners from the balcony of the seized house with inscriptions in English – "Against war and capitalism", as well as one Russian-language one – "Yandex + FSB = Love". In a conversation with an NRC correspondent, the activists said they had been in the building since Thursday.
Formally, the 5-storey house belongs to the company in the British Virgin Islands. According to the Dutch media, – offshore, through which Volozh acquired the mansion. According to De Telegraaf, the squatters intend to settle in it for those in need of housing, as well as to hold political events there.
In early June, Volozh was put on the EU sanctions list as a Russian who, in one way or another, supports the war against Ukraine. Together with him, Alina Kabaeva, the wife of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Tatyana Navka, their children Nikolai and Lisa, the son of "Putin's cook" Yevgeny Prigozhin Pavel and others were on the list.