They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.

Yes, Putin has avoided those destinations so far. He even got warned by South Africa that they’d have to arrest him if he were to travel to a meeting there.

If the requirements are the same as for iPhones, this change is entirely inconsequential, because Apple can just add so many hurdles to sideloading to make this infeasible.

They did release him because they can’t do that. However, he then told his buddy that he’s going to flee the country, who then talked about that on his livestream. That's a new offense that lead to him being arrested again.

To everybody new to this topic, the doctors aren’t the good guys in this battle. They want to keep their wages up by limiting competition, while the country is suffering under a severe supply shortage already.

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

This is almost certainly not intentional. The AI just can’t differentiate between unsafe as in NSFW and unsafe as in manual memory management.

Well, Microsoft is doing everything they can to get people to switch to Linux right now...

Does that doll have a wallet?

The customers are paying the price, not them.

In addition to a very xenophobic culture that doesn’t allow the addition of missing working-age people via immigration.

He never was, that was just an excuse to amplify the voice of his far-right buddies.