RE: go figure7 May 2020 20:58
Uuuugh..more nonsense ****ging off Putin..
It really is time we cleaned up our own swamp before sticking or noses elsewhere.. Tony Blair!
There is as yet to date no proof that Putin has stolen anything...
But as I have pointed out before, the west (read as the USA) expected to be able to help themselves to Russia's goodies and had a working relationship with Yeltsin... who the yanks were promoting to be President. They even made a film about it ''Spinning Boris'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Boris . But those hopes of gaining Russias goodies have been thwarted by Putin. .. And this was the case with Yukos. Bush got on well with Putin, even drove Putins car, https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/russian-federation-us-president-george-w-bush-drives-news-photo/52776552 a nice kodak moment for both.. but Bush's regime made a grab for Yukos..
"The Khodorkovsky arrest followed an unpublicized meeting earlier that year on July 14, 2003, between Khodorkovsky and Cheney. Following the Cheney meeting, Khodorkovsky began talks with ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, Rice's old firm, about taking a major state in Yukos, said to have been between 25% and 40%.
That was intended to give Khodorkovsky de facto immunity from possible Putin government interference by tying Yukos to the big US oil giants and, hence, to Washington. It would also have given Washington, via the US oil giants, a defacto veto power over future Russian oil and gas pipelines and oil deals. Days before his October 2003 arrest on tax fraud charges, Khodorkovsky had entertained George H W Bush, the representative of the powerful and secretive Washington Carlyle Group in Moscow. They were discussing the final details of the US oil company share buy-in of Yukos.
Yukos had also just made a bid to acquire rival Sibneft from Boris Berezovsky, another Yeltsin-era oligarch. YukosSibneft, with 19.5 billion barrels of oil and gas, would then own the second-largest oil and gas reserves in the world after ExxonMobil. YukosSibneft would be the fourth-largest in the world in terms of production, pumping 2.3 million barrels of crude oil a day. The Exxon or Chevron buy-up of YukosSibneft would have been a literal energy coup d'etat. Cheney knew it; Bush knew it; Khodorkovsky knew it.
Above all, Putin knew it and moved decisively to block it."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HJ25Ag01.html
"The Exxon or Chevron buy-up of YukosSibneft would have been a literal energy coup d'etat. Cheney knew it; Bush knew it; Khodorkovsky knew it.
Above all, Putin knew it and moved decisively to block it. "
Formerly http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HJ25Ag01.html now here http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Russian_Giant/russian_giant.html
And after that Russian (Putin) & US relations plummeted!
And then of course theres Bill Browder.. he worked for Robert Maxwell... nuff said.
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