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Lesta Studio, dev & publisher of World of Warships & World of Tanks, seized by Russian gov't; Wargaming & Lesta CEOs arrested Anonymous 04/27/2025 (Sun) 09:17:24 Id: 51e203 No. 1271024
Lesta is the World of Warships developer and publisher of World of Tanks in Russia, that is. Wargaming is the developer of World of Tanks and its Western publisher. https://archive.is/5uZe9 >MOSCOW, April 26 - RIA Novosti. The Prosecutor General's Office is asking the Tagansky Court of Moscow [for a Russian ban] for carrying out extremist activities an association consisting of Lesta owner Malik Khatajaev and Wargaming.net owner Viktor Kislyy, as well as to recover 100% of Lesta's shares for state revenue, according to court materials available to RIA Novosti. >"Statement of claim of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia to ban the activities of the association, consisting of V. V. V. Kisloy and M. A. Khatazhaev, and the appeal to the state income shares in the authorized capital of the defendants", - stated in the materials. These are the shares of Lesta LLC, Lesta Games Agency LLC, and Lesta Games Moscow LLC. >The Prosecutor General's Office believes that Kislyy and Khatajaev constitute an extremist association and carry out extremist activities on the territory of Russia. In the lawsuit, the applicant attached publications with the headlines “The military game World of Tanks is against Russia's special operation”, “How Wargaming survived 25 years - and coped with the war in Ukraine”, “Wargaming launched a charity project with Ukrainian content in games to raise money for reanimation vehicles”. Stuff like this has been happening in Russia for awhile since the invasion, it started with targeting bakeries and factories at first, but as the war has gone on they've been plundering larger and larger corporations. This has to be one of the most public government thefts.
Does that mean the russkies can no longer play world of tanks? Isn't that like half their userbase?
I know a gamedev from Russia, the second he had a successful title he fucked off the Kazakhstan to setup a studio. Nobody with brains or money wants to be in Russia at the moment, the government has gone full African warlord mode and steal whatever they want to line their pockets fund the war. It's shocking how brazen they've gotten.
>>1271024 Bet Warthunder is somehow involved
>>1271041 Careful there, bro. Speaking the truth about the anti-slavic Russian Federation might get a bunch of contrarian retards hate you. Don't you know Putin's nigger hordes are here to save YOU and save Europe? Putin lining his pockets and building mosques and monuments to Stalin for 20 years of his clownish rule is actually good. You get to live like a nigger but you are at least content that you're the slave of the "most powerful Tzar in the world".
This is happening due to the Russian government throwing money at Ukraine which still isn't over. To buy weaponry like Drones from Iran and ammunition in mass. The only get a percentage of the revenue, and doing this gives all of it. But it's also a propaganda reason, if a company in Russia goes against the government, then that means it's bad and has to be silenced to keep people from not going to war. It also means they can put malware into the software, depending on how the companies moves. If you see anybody from the FSB or SVR go to their offices, it's over. Shocked nothing like this happened before with all of the military leaks that happened because of both games.
>>1271574 It's very disturbing how many self-professed right wingers support Putin, who depopulated a European Christian city and turned it into a mini-caliphate (see Mariupol) by importing masses of Central-Asian muslims.
War Thunder is the superior tank game and the studio moved away from the neo-Muscovite Caliphate as soon as the war started. Skill issue.
>>1271041 >Nobody with brains or money wants to be in Russia at the moment >at the moment The brain drain is epidemic for a reason, the special needs operation just lowered the braincell requirement. >>1272063 A lot of political activism on the internet is straight up psyops, and not the actual opinions of actual people. Think about it, there's literally millions of africans that will spam 1000s of posts per days across dozens of sites for $10/day and thank you for the opportunity.
I'm worried what this means for Chieftain's day job as Wargaming's in-house historian. It funded a lot of fun historical videos.
>>1272063 A lot of the people who did this insane U-turn on their previous Russia stance in 2022 are probably paid off in some way. That's my guess. These people are cheap if you look at how little it takes for youtubers to basically spot Chinese state press releases, like 5 grand is usually enough. Some will even do with a free trip to somewhere.
>>1271024 Whoa shit, that's pretty bad.
>>1271024 This wpuld be sad if wargaming didn't make absolute dogshit
>>1271024 If this means that the Lesta developer/Komarov's all-pathtracing game engine gets delayed I'm gonna shit myself and then learn to AI generate code.
>>1271574 >Both sides are globohomo that should be killed without mercy More news at 11
>>1271024 Damn that is crazy.
>>1271024 If WoT gets taken down russians might revolt for real.
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>>1308480 What are you larping as, lil bro?
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>>1271024 >make war propaganda for the enemy >raise MONEY for the enemy >get arrested and your assets nationalized Yeah? I bitch about it when America-Israel does it but that's because America-Israel's enemies are the good guys lmao
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>thread is dead for a week >comes back with a bunch of vatniki guzzling semen Hmm
>>1308658 True! Nobody actually disagrees with you, I'm an orc on a VPN and I get paid one washing machine chip per post.
>>1271024 who cares
>>1308707 It's interesting, I think.
>>1308737 Not to anyone with an IQ above 80.
>>1308888 What?
>>1309146 Anon is sleepy.
>>1308642 Yeah, states with seats on the UN Security Council and founding members of the post WW2 world order who do everything in their power to keep jews safe no matter what are the good guys. I love based Jewtin, he's such a strong leader. He displayed his power when he went to Chechnya to kiss the Quran not even a day after a muslim terror attack in Moscow that killed over 70 Russians. He's such a great guy for his people, he also managed to ethnically cleanse the Donbas before the evil "Ukronazis" by mass conscripting all the men there and sending them to die in Bakhmut. The funniest thing is he said he wasn't even there to defend Russians but "Russian-speakers" instead. A Russian-speaker can be literally any type of central asian or noviop mutt. People who care about the slavic population of Russia are "cavemen" according to Putin.
>>1271997 >Putting malware in the software This is probably the real reason. Put malware on US people's PCs.
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>>1320186 The only depopulated area in Eastern Europe is Ukraine because a million men decided to be "Nazis" for NATO lmao. Or well, the evil dwarf decided for them in most cases Also if you had reading comprehension you would notice I didn't actually name America/Jewry's enemies in my post. I was actually thinking mostly about Palestine activists and actual Nazis (as opposed to retarded butthurt belters like you) but thank you for accidentally conceding that yes, Russia is an enemy of Jewry.
>>1320186 Russia made faggotry illegal, and that alone makes it the absolute best country in the whole world.
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>we got a bunch of retarded refugees who fell for the "RUSSYA STRONK" meme Heaven fucking help us
>>1271024 funniest bit about it is that the wargaming did that but not lesta, lesta is it's own thing since 2022 lasta was not involved with the ukrainian thing but that doesn't matter in soviet russia
>>1322309 explain aids statistics
>>1322701 Putin fucks a lot of people
>>1322701 Dune coons.
>>1322309 Bro, aren't like half the people who join the Russian military victims of homosexual rape? >>1322098 >actual Nazis Sublime. Which actual Nazis? TRS faggots and Mike Enoch? Retards on Telegram? The Homoland Party in the UK? Mark Collette? Are these actual Nazis in the room with you right now? >(as opposed to retarded butthurt belters like you) >if you hate Russia you must be Baltic Epic, but I do find it funny how these tiny little countries you don't dare to take over make you so upset. Russia is jewry's best friend. Israel will be taking part in this year's Gay Pride Parade in Moscow. You deflected from jewtin's anti-slavic actions and his cucking to Islam and organized Chabad jewry in the Russian Federation so I accept your concession. Podcasters, foreign influence operations and foreign governments won't save you.
>>1324160 Lmao, thanks for letting me know who lives most rent free in your head, it's an interesting list.


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