you do realize not ALL Russians side with their govt, right?

Just like not all Ukrainians were slaughtering Polish people in most barbarian ways, icluding newborns and pregnant woman in Wołyń

yep... I keep telling my dearests, that they should never continue phone conversation if the topic is making them feel threttened (directly or indirectly). Still, even in my close circles I hear stories of people being scammed through silly stories from 'your parcell will not arrive unless you pay >>small amount<< online' to 'your son needs urgent help, send him money online'... I sometimes contemplate whether there is a hook scammers would catch me on..

My experience is that most of my time goes to writing cover letter (I should probably copy-paste, but instead I always reflect 'why I'm doing this' and write proper letter), never had to spend 30 minutes entering my details...

I feel the biggest blunder would be when applicant gets a take-home, spends some time on it and then there is no answer. Though I never experienced that myself. I never ghosted a candidate when I was on the other side of hiring table, but I was always finding it draining my energy to write the 'no' responses

Maybe official 'name and blame' service where anybody could post their experience under their real name?

Unfortunately, in America, at least, that would be likely to lead to a lot of lawsuits—lawsuits that should be shot down under the SLAPP category, but it takes enough money and time just to respond to a lawsuit that many people would be unwilling to take the risk by posting anything.

It's a multiparty problem. I really wouldn't want to post negative experiences of companies under my and their real name while still looking for jobs elsewhere.

Glassdoor could only possibly be accurate because it was anonymous. Of course, that also makes it easier to fake.

It'd actually be easier for a government app to verify identities and (especially if mandated by law) protect your anonymity.

The private sector is great at lots of stuff but running a clean marketplace isnt one of them - the incentives are off.

If you make such request, how can you enforce to get all of the comms? I'm curious, would some government institution step in and audit their mail servers, slack channels, google hangouts and all other channels to obtain all of the information?

The next stage of complaint is actually the local Information Commissioner.

Companies will usually comply with this, because it's very difficult to instruct staff to not comply with the law without leaving any records or risking one of them leaking it. However they will check what the legal minimum is and do that.

I take it you are unfamiliar with the legal process of "discovery" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)

I wonder, is there a precedence of applicant dragging the company to court over their response to such request?

Yes, it's very common when dealing with smaller businesses that don't have great legal compliance to get a court order forcing production of documents