What is to befall barrel and us?

Annual economic forum in St. Petersburg — pretentiously dubbed the “Russian Davos” — has come to an end. Neither its significance for the global economics, nor the ranks of the guests, nor the announced goals can match the Swiss ones, but peculiar aspects of it are crucial for our country.

SIEGE OF GAZPROM. Part II

On the 28^th of September this year anti-monopoly bodies of European Commission searched the offices of 20 Central European and Western European companies. Gazprom subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Baltic States and Poland were concerned, too. List of searched companies includes German giants like Е.ON and RWE, Polish state concern PGNiG and EuRoPolGaz. The system of transit Yamal-Europe gas pipelines coming through Poland belongs to the latter one. At the same time the blow on the south-eastern flank was delivered.

Part 1

What is Khodorkovsky doing his time for. Part III

Khodorkovsky as a one of modern Russian political system Framers

During next three or four years Mikhail Khodorkovsky became one of the wealthiest people in Russia. Due to the experts’ estimates his fortune used to make up $18 billion. Time of financial affairs, acquiring the best tidbits of the national pie was over. Being, without doubt, a very gifted man, Khodorkovsky understood that money is not everything at all. From now then his goal changed — he desired to become a part of establishment, gain more power rather than money.