The company is Access Industries and the Founder and Owner is Leonard Blavatnik

Along with what’s in the title, he is accused of reputation laundering against Ukraine and has been personally sanctioned by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was also part of a WhatsApp group involving some of the United States’ most powerful business leaders with the stated goals of “changing the narrative” in favour of Israel and “helping win the war” against Gaza.

Everything is in the linked Wikipedia article about him, mostly under the “Controversies and disputes” part.

I switched to Deezer after seeing it recommended as a better Spotify alternative here on Lemmy, but after finding all this I immediately stopped using it. It’s as bad as the shit Spotify does and has done IMO. I’m not here to recommend or push an alternative, but if I can give info on what I use now if someone asks.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
    41·
    24 hours ago

    wtf are russian billionaires doing supporting America’s attack dog in the middle east anyway?

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
          14·
          21 hours ago

          Trump and his party are ruining that horrible country rapidly so it’s normal a great part of the world likes that.
          The slightly less fascist dems keep their regime’s fascism and horrible abuses for their many many foreign wars so the imperialism keeps running like clockwork because their voters who only care about themselves aren’t bothered by what they do elsewhere and don’t need to complain as they do now.
          They are here every day crying about how they want to get back to their perfect democracy.
          Genocide, regime changes, wars, kids in cages were OK right up to Trump, as long as it didn’t inconvenience them.

          • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
            41·
            20 hours ago

            Ok, but that doesnt answer my question. What does a Russian billionaire get out of supporting Israel?

            • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
              23·
              19 hours ago

              Well to start he’s not Russian but ukrainian and since decades a western oligarch spendig a lot of time in the US. (but always nice to smear Russia for everything imaginable) Those countries are 2 birds of a feather and support eachother.
              And he’s a jewish zionist with a lot of business interests in Shitrael.