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Is there any advantage to be gained from Armenia's EAEU membership, should one learn the language sufficiently and fulfill whatever practical requirements actually exist for naturalization?

According to the slides linked in the article, Option 1 is a business investment that creates at least 10 jobs. Option 2 returns 0% and the principal at the end of the period. Option 3 is a non-refundable contribution. No source of funds will be required per the slides. It looks to be built upon...

Not at the moment. I have little interest in Georgia right now. Merely highlighting an item of potential interest from a news site.

The entry/exit node thing has been known for 15+ years. Admittedly, I only quickly skimmed the articles but it looks like in one case a bad actor (you get one guess) was injecting nodes into the network and using signals analysis to deanonymize communications, which is probably practical if you...

https://www.imidaily.com/europe/geo...-contribution-citizenship-program-in-beijing/ They announced three investment tiers, one being a €250000 contribution. It seems like a lot of people here bank or otherwise have interests in Georgia.

New recruit reporting for duty, sir!

I was there briefly in 2019. Sultan Qaboos was still alive then. I believe his cousin is running the place now. It's rule by one man for all that might imply for policy stability. You don't even have a federal council like the UAE. That said, policy has seemed fairly stable. The fines for...

Marriage to gain a second citizenship? And you thought El Salvador or Malta were expensive!

Clearview AI is horrifying, more so than most realize. To keep this on topic, that might be a separate thread. Filing a BOI report with FinCen won't necessarily make you any lower hanging fruit than you already are. Thousands upon thousands of these are filed. It's not going to cause anyone to...

That works well until the US government decides it wants to interact with you. Then, you're going to be interacted with regardless of your wishes. Where money flows, it can be tracked. Don't overestimate the amount of privacy you think you have. Certainly, you can reduce the likelihood of...

Remind me of how that ended for Mr. bin Laden? Correct, one needs to keep a low profile to avoid sticking out too far from the crowd and avoid the administrative attention, but when the bear is chasing you specifically, there is nowhere to hide for long. Most of us are not going to be chased...

The US government already knows who you are (or can easily find out) and, US person or not, will make your life difficult if they decide to do so. Debanking, unofficial blacklisting, freezing assets, sanction lists, extradition, rendition, and even drone strikes are all options on the continuum...

Generally not a fan of real estate investing. Real estate has relatively high carrying costs in the way of tax and maintenance, imposes some form of physical presence requirement to monitor it, requires a lot of due diligence (do you really understand that local market?), and has a higher...

Nation-states are gonna nation-state. Russia: Ukraine, Round 3, after an appropriate rebuilding period. Georgia is aligned right now after the recent elections. I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of activity to bring Armenia back into the fold, though that might come in the form of aid...

For some people, it gives useful visa free access to places, especially if your other passport doesn't have visa-free Schengen, and a nice fig leaf for travel, e.g., going to Russia as a Serbian is a more appealing prospect at the moment for a US citizen for more than one reason. I had a call...

Obviously new. There seems to be useful information here. I've been in the US business and start-up space for a while and am starting to internationalize. To start with a bold proclamation, I believe an American citizen, without renunciation, can structure in such a way to pay zero tax while...