Chairman of LukOil died after unfortunate fall from window
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Anonymous
Ivana Trump? Her death was very curiously timed. |
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Dead guy spoke out against Ukraine invasion? |
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Yes. And I saw her daughter out and about fishing with friends in Miami. Gee. After one of my parents died, I was devastated. |
Anonymous
| Why do rich people have such bad luck in Russia? Must be the evil eye. |
Anonymous
The oligarchs are putting pressure on Putin because the war with Ukraine is straining the economy (to include the oil industry). The oligarchs have a lot of money, which translates to power. Putin is going to assassinate anyone who attempts to wield power. |
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He will also preemptively kill people to send a message.
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Anonymous
Weren’t most of the others gas executives? Now an oil oligarch. Are they opposing idiotic Kremlin plans? |
Anonymous
More gas than oil executives but oligarchs from both the major gas and oil company have died under highly suspicious and sometimes extremely gory circumstances. Lukoil came out against the war in Ukraine. It sure seems like ruthless silencing of the lambs. One wonders where gas executives were punished for opposing Kremlin’s plan to starve Europe of gas. Gazprom said on Saturday that Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE) was ready to help repair broken equipment but that there was nowhere available to carry out the work. Siemens said it has not been commissioned to carry out maintenance work for the pipeline but it is available. Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea to supply Germany and others, was supposed to resume operating after a three-day halt for maintenance on Saturday. The indefinite delay to resuming gas deliveries will deepen Europe's problems securing fuel for winter with living costs already surging, led by energy prices. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - on Friday said a cap on the price of Russian oil aimed to "reduce ... Russia’s ability to fund its war of aggression whilst limiting the impact of Russia’s war on global energy prices". read more The Kremlin said it would stop selling oil to any countries that implemented the cap. |
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How can Russia afford to stop selling oil and gas to Europe? Does it have other markets?
I thought oil and gas was the main source of Russia's wealth. How will Russia fund their war with Ukraine without that revenue? |
Anonymous
| Maga cult is so stupid they will get their way and it will be horrific. Idiot.s |
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Of course it has other markets. Everyone uses oil and gas, both of which are fungible. |
Anonymous
They will depend even more on China. Countries like China, India and so in will keep buying, they need it too much. Russia will be at the mercy of China. Putin did not like Europe, I am sure he will enjoy Xi |
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Not just rich people. Apparently when Navalny got sick in the airplane after being poisoned the airplane landed in a random town in the middle of Russia’s Asian vast plains and Navalny was taken to the hospital. The doctor who Treated him fell off the window or the hospital a few days later and died. A Putin opposer fell off a window in Georgetown a few weeks ago. |
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New armchair QB. Kind of. I don't really know what's going on over there, but I have traveled and seen how their neighbors think. I have a slightly different take based upon how I see Communist Official logic working. Remember that the only real injection of large amounts of hard currency into the country right now are petro dollars. The only account separation between petro dollars and the war effort are via the bankers. Why waste time transferring funds here and there when patriotic Russians should just make it all available at once? And it helps if the BRIC friends help with the laundry. Why bother with troublesome account sanctions, when the BRIC buddies can help out? It's the Easy Button. Problem solved! Plus, if anyone had any last minute travel plans, it always helps to have a friend. And it's not just the war effort that needs funding. Party officials are sad - sadder than the grumpyness depicted by the monument to N.N. Muravjov-Amursky and the embankment in Khabarovsk (on the 5,000 ruble note). Shelves are emptying, so there's not much to buy. Pregnant widows and babushkas tell them sad things. The ruble isn't stretching as far as it used to nowadays. Paying in Rubles is troublesome when its value changes so much. What can turn that frown into a smile? There are a lot of happy faces printed on other nation's currencies - hard currencies. But if that paycheck ever stops.. well.. it would make the dacha less fun, and no one wants to be that sad. To who and for what would Russians transfer funds to? Who knows. The only place Russians are still welcome is China? Putin could cash out, hole up in some Chinese mountain range palace (like the one he built), and no one would be the wiser. Why would he do that? Is that a win-win for Putin? Maybe. China would most likely be the big winner out of any U.S.-Russian conflict. To get rid of his enemies within and NATO at the same time? Is that calculus something a former-KGB agent would think of? When the lower level party officials are threatening nuclear war, they are usually parroting someone above them. Medvedev, Ryabkov, Kiselyov.. “Why do we need a world if Russia is not in it?” https://www.newsweek.com/russian-official-issues-stark-nuclear-warning-us-chess-game-death-1739674 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-warns-us-off-sending-long-range-weapons-89225498 https://worldnewstimes.com/why-do-we-need-a-world-if-russia-is-not-in-it-state-tv-presenter-opens-show-with-ominous-address/ Now, where would this leave all of his loyal foreign staff, deep-cover secret agents, bodyguards, communist officials? Well, I'm sure they can all fill in the blanks themselves. It's interesting to speculate, isn't it? This would make a great fiction book! 
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