Yeah, or maybe the Kazachs mark up RU uranium and resell it. Lots of that going on with RU oil now. Sometimes mix a little non RU crude with the RU crude to cleanse it of the RU sins then mark it up and re-sell.
Reminds me of an interesting Bald and Bankrupt episode. He and GF broke into the Kazach site of the RU space shuttle. Got caught, paid minor fine, no big deal. Not what got him in trouble elsewhere.
16 min bus to 30 km from cosmodrome, meets up with GF.
It is restricted military area.
walk over desert then nightfall. sleep in a building.
26 min break in
32 get a ladder
33 min space shuttle
get busted off camera as he hid the memory stick. I recall he gets a free tour.
https://youtu.be/0fZ-r5Qe3tM?t=1935 This Video Caused An International Incident! ( Spaceship Discovery )
bald and bankrupt