Comments on: Russia? Think Again

by: Andrey

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:37:28 +0000

Vital’ka,
Were you completely stoned when you wrote these lines?
You know, Yukos stole these assets first in the middle of the nineties with the help of corrupted officials. How else can you name paying $150 millions for assets which actual price is ONE HUNDRED times more. What taxes should it be to return this difference?
As for Gazprom, this is bullshit. Why do you all like to say that Kremlin uses Gazprom as an instrument to put pressure upon our neighbors. The thing is that Gazprom is very important for the economy, it creates a lot of jobs, taxes. Why should it sell gas to the Ukraine five times cheaper than to Germany. It harms our economy, which is still very weak. The US for example doesn’t sell F-18 fighters to the beloved Israel for $10 million, if they cost $50 million. Why should we? Besides, Microsoft’s Windows is installed in nearly every computer in the world, but nobody says it’s a pressure upon other countries.
And I can judge your recommendation to buy Halliburton shares instead of Gazprom’s as the top of cynicism. At least we did not unleash war because of Gazprom’s interests as you did in Iraq in Halliburton’s favor. You wasted hundreds of billion dollars, hundred thousand Iraqi civilians and more than 3000 lives of your own soldiers and for what? To make George and Dick happy? Come on, give me a break.

by: Andrey

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:33:53 +0000

Виталька,
Were you completely stoned when you wrote these lines?
You know, Yukos stole these assets first in the middle of the nineties with the help of corrupted officials. How else can you name paying $150 millions for assets which actual price is ONE HUNDRED times more. What taxes should it be to return this difference?
As for Gazprom, this is bullshit. Why do you all like to say that Kremlin uses Gazprom as an instrument to put pressure upon our neighbors. The thing is that Gazprom is very important for the economy, it creates a lot of jobs, taxes. Why should it sell gas to the Ukraine five times cheaper than to Germany. It harms our economy, which is still very weak. The US for example doesn’t sell F-18 fighters to the beloved Israel for $10 million, if they cost $50 million. Why should we? Besides, Microsoft’s Windows is installed in nearly every computer in the world, but nobody says it’s a pressure upon other countries.
And I can judge your recommendation to buy Halliburton shares instead of Gazprom’s as the top of cynicism. At least we did not unleash war because of Gazprom’s interests as you did in Iraq in Halliburton’s favor. You wasted hundreds of billion dollars, hundred thousand Iraqi civilians and more than 3000 lives of your own soldiers and for what? To make George and Dick happy? Come on, give me a break.

by: Eric

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:16:26 +0000

I agree with your comments - the entire incident with Yukos was legalized theft. If Russia wanted the assets back they should have gotten it back through estate taxes.