Charles Koch Is Keeping His Business in Russia, Despite Zelenskyy’s Pleas

Koch Industries, conservative mega-donor Charles Koch’s Kansas-based manufacturing and energy behemoth, announced on Wednesday that it will continue operating in Russia, even as hundreds of corporations worldwide pull operations from the country in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Dave Robertson, the president and COO of Koch Industries, said in a statement the conglomerate’s glass-manufacturing subsidiary Guardian Industries would “not walk away” from its roughly 600 employees in Russia—stating it would only put them “at greater risk and do more harm than good”—or “hand over these manufacturing facilities to the Russian government so it can operate and benefit from… Read Full Article