Russians are Upset with Prokhorov

This report from the New York Post will make it harder for opponents of this move to demonize Mikhail Prokhorov as a backward-thinking Russian. Apparently, his decision to move West is none too popular in his homeland the fatherland. And as we all know, if you're pissing off the Russians, you're probably doing something right:

…the hundreds of millions of dollars could have been spent better in Russia, members of the Russian parliament said.

Viktor Ozerov, another upper-chamber legislator, said Prokhorov is sending his money in the wrong direction.

"I don’t deny that Mikhail Prokhorov has put money into developing sports in Russia, but I would have liked all the means he considered possible to have gone to specifically supporting sports in the fatherland," Ozerov was quoted as saying.

The Kremlin hasn’t commented on Prokhorov’s move, but members of the upper parliament chamber, the Federation Council, commonly reflect the views of the Russian leadership.

See? They really do call it the fatherland.

(And conspiracy theorists, take heart: perhaps the Russians are just saying this, when in fact, Prokhorov’s takeover of American sports has been planned on all along, and in 3 years Lebron will be ballin' in Moscow, right on schedule.)