1. Keep your servers abroad.
2. Register your domains abroad.
3. Register your company abroad.
4. Keep your money abroad and don't put all eggs in one basket.
5. Seriously, don't put all your eggs in one basket!
6. Keep your database abroad.
7. Document everything regarding your office setup.
8. Split the risks and assets.
9. You can give youself up voluntarily. Find a large patron or manage law enforcement protection yourself.
10. Leave the country.
A little bit on that Alexander Mamut guy: http://rumafia.net/en/dosje/12 . One of the "7 banker" group.
He is the one who racketeered Euroset into selling itself at 990% discount.
Evroset was the largest retail network in Russia, built from scratch buy a man with a lot of talent, but no mafia connections. Alexander Chichvarkin was pretty much the most renowned businessman of his generation in Russia.
Chichvarkin fled to UK, and left a director to be his proxy.
They used the same tactic — director detained, and offered a trade at gunpoint. The director however managed to escape the capture too. In this case, after his bodyguards made a scuffle with police in his office.
As an outside business you want no servers in the US or use US dollars in any form as you may end up being sanctioned or worse extradited for things that are not illegal in your country.
You're of course conflating problems that are very common in Russia (hyper corruption, few human rights, zero business law protection, no functioning independent judicial system) with problems (the need for huge insurance, extradition, getting sanctioned) that are rare in the monster size $22 trillion US economy filled with millions of businesses.
List of countries currently meaningfully sanctioned by the US: Russia, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria
I certainly hope you don't live in North Korea while commenting freely on Hacker News (which is, naturally, located in the US).
Because the OP's list was likely referring to a very different reality than what you imagine: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/24/russia.interna...
That kind of stuff does happen in Australia too, it's not just widely known or reported on.
A good friend - (now-ex) business owner - several years ago had her company taken from her at gun point. With nothing to be done about it ("or else") by people who the police won't fk with.
Rambler sold their NGINX "copyright rights" to a shady law firm (Lynwood Investments CY Ltd).
Maximum time for a detention is 48 hours until the court's decision. The difference is how much time one would have to actively prepare his defence themselves, not via advocates.