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How Will Russia Respond To Asset Seizure Over Yukos Settlement?
Submitted by Andy Tully via OilPrice.com,
Senior Russian officials said Kremlin lawyers are studying France and Belgium’s seizure of Russian government assets in the two countries as part of a court settlement to compensate shareholders of Yukos, the privately owned oil company that was shut down by Moscow.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled in July 2014 that Russia owes $50 billion to the shareholders for confiscating the assets of Yukos in 2003, then Russia’s largest oil producer, and giving them to the state-run oil company Rosneft.
Yukos had been operated by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Once he was the country’s richest entrepreneur but was arrested on charges of tax violations in 2003 and sentenced to prison in 2005. He was only released after President Vladimir Putin pardoned him in December 2013.
Khodorkovsky argues that the case against him and Yukos was merely revenge for his political opposition to Putin. The court in The Hague agreed, saying the case against both Khodorkovsky and Yukos was politically motivated.
The Yukos shareholders, represented by GML, Yukos’ former holding company, said it would be very difficult to persuade the Russian government to reimburse them. In fact, Russia has refused to pay the damages, so the shareholders persuaded courts in Belgium, Britain, France and the United States to enforce the ruling piecemeal.
The Russian news agency Interfax reports that former Yukos shareholders say they are owed $1.9 billion of Russian state property in Belgium. It wasn’t immediately known how much was owed from Russian assets in France.
Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said June 18 that France had frozen a small amount of money in bank accounts held by Russian companies and diplomatic missions at the local subsidiary of the Russian bank VTB. He said Belgium had served seizure notices to Russian state-owned lenders and other entities ordering them to declare assets belonging to the Russian state.
In Moscow, government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kremlin lawyers were “in the most careful manner examining all circumstances of the claim.”
An economic aide to Putin, Andrei Belousov, said in St. Petersburg that the actions by France and Belgium were politicized, but added, “We are concerned. We expect a number of countries to take similar measures.” Ulyukayev simply dismissed the asset freezing as unlawful.
The actions by France and Belgium come as Russia opens a key international forum on the investment climate environment in Russia in St. Petersburg, Putin’s hometown. Peskov said, however, that he believes the actions by Paris and Brussels were a mere coincidence.
“This has nothing to do with the investment climate in Russia,” the Kremlin spokesman said. “Business circles are interested in Russia, as evidenced by the guest list of the forum.”
Khodorkovsky, who now lives in exile in Switzerland, reacted to the reports about the frozen assets on Twitter, saying, “I expect that the money will be spent on projects that will benefit Russian society.”
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As we concluded previously, the response from the Kremlin so far:
- RUSSIA SUMMONS BELGIAN AMBASSADOR OVER FREEZES OF RUSSIA ASSETS
- RUSSIA: FREEZES OF ASSETS IN BELGIUM `UNFRIENDLY ACT'
- RUSSIA MAY RESPOND IN KIND TARGETING BELGIAN ASSETS IN RUSSIA
“[Remove the violations], otherwise, the Russian side will be forced to consider taking adequate response measures against properties of the Kingdom of Belgium, including properties of the Belgian embassy in Moscow, as well as of its legal entities”
We imagine this will only serve to further inflame tensions between Russia and Europe amid escalating violence in Ukraine and an increasingly aggressive stance towards the Kremlin on the part of Washington and NATO.
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Russia's oil belongs to the Russian people, not a few rich thieves. All Russia owes Khodorovsky and his fellow kleptocrats is a bullet in the back of the head, and they should be grateful they didn't get just that.
I dare say the FSB needs to chat with a few French and Belgian judges, to remind them that the Russian people have rights too.
Yukos announces no more oil will be provided to France and Belgium starting now.
Could you imagine if a Russian court ruled against Haliburton for acts commited in the US and started seizing assets in the EU and/or Russia? The screaming by the MSM USSA corporate media would pierce your eardrums.
Any Russian that now keeps money in the EU deserves to get ripped off.
‘US would like Russia to cease to exist as a country’ – Russia’s top security official
“Russia’s extreme wealth doesn’t allow the US to rest”Exile in .ch ... the tears well up in my eyes just thinking about it. Mostly because I'm not in exile in .ch.
So, how did Kodorhkovsky come to be the owner of all this oil, anyway? Drilling wildcat wells in Siberia during the Khruschev administration and working his way up?
World War 3 is coming, 2020.
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Pompus BS.....Please state your reasons or links Pubicus.
No need, time is the best proof.
‘US would like Russia to cease to exist as a country’ – Russia’s top security official
Over generalization. Jewish oligarchs outside Russia want the existing Jewish-Russian oligarchs spoils from their previous rape of the Russian people. That theft is most easily accomplished during a change in government - ANY change in Russian government. It doesn't matter who or what flavor, as long as there's some chaos during the change.
There is nothing more singularly infuriating to a Jewish oligarch than the envy and jealously they feel when they see how richly some OTHER Jewish oligarch has profited from theft, corruption or previous dishonest scheme. Oligarchs in the U.S. are absolutely livid that they missed out on the sacking of Russian and the rest of Eastern Europe. They didn't know there was so much good stuff to steal. Since they missed out the first time around, the solution is obvious: rig the rules, pre-position their bribes, recruit some corrupt little people and then force a reset. Case in point: Ukraine.
The 'U.S.' as an independent entity has no desire to see Russia disappear.
Even the Jewish oligarchs that use the U.S. government for their money-making schemes do not want to see Russia disappear. It's a resource-rich gold mine of stuff to steal - they DREAM of places like Russia to loot. The U.S. Jewish oligarchs only want to hit the reset button on the Russian government so they can get in on the looting they missed the first time around.
The Rothschild Jewish banking oligarchs, of course, have their sights set on destroying the existing Russian central bank and setting up another one of their franchises. The Rothschild/Bauers operate on a much longer time frame though. They're never in much of a hurry.
What looks like some grand conspiracy is nothing of the sort - there is no Jewish or any other oligarch cabal working together. They are independent, competing thieves that simply tolerate each other, but will mutually benefit by a weak Russian government that they can 'change' every few years.
If they can use the usurped U.S. government to further those goals, then so be it. The U.S. government has no leadership, soul or mind of its own. Oligarchs have scopolamined it with bribe money through their 'corporate' fronts and do whatever they want with it. At some point in time, OTHER Jewish oligarchs inside or outside the U.S. will want to cause the same government change that is being attempted in Russia - undermine the existing government and hit the reset button so they can loot the existing oligarch's loot. For the U.S., a red/blue 'vote', race war, tax revolt, terrorism, tyranny, armed revolution. hell, ANY one will do - they don't give a shit. The goal is chaos and change so they can loot. It's not even a turf war - they all just want to steal each other's spoils.
Even some of the Jewish-Russian oligarchs IN Russia today with plenty of power and loot probably want to see the Russian government change, too. Gives them another opportunity to steal even more shit from the Russian people. They don't want outside Jewish oligarchs coming in stealing stuff too - they're competitors.
There are plenty of Jewish-U.S. oligarchs that want to press the rest button on Russia, and their U.S. government zombie has the biggest, fattest finger around. When the U.S. government loses that finger to the angry Russian bear, the oligarchs won't give a damn. If your crescent wrench falls apart, you throw it in the garbage and grab a new one.
American isn't exceptional in the least - it's the exact same as Russia: a resource-rich place to loot. The Jewish oligarchs will scheme to hit the reset button on the U.S. government when the time comes. Russia is just the more attractive treasure-chest at the moment - all they have to do is knock that Putin guy off the top of it. That God damn Putin is keeping Jewish oligarchs from legally stealing all the shit inside the treasure-chest. Putin just doesn't understand that it belongs to the Jewish oligarchs, not the Russian people.
Could you imagine if an American court ruled against a big bank like BNP for internationally legal trade acts commited outside the USA, and imposed a 10 billion $ fine only because they used dollars ... oh wait a minute ...
Made me laugh. It is funny how US citizens usually do not talk about what they do.
Hey, if they don't need those petrodollars, that's cool. It's not like their entire economy is resting on those laurels or anything.
EU extends economic sanctions against Russia for 6 months
Russia retaliates with same measure against the EU
True enough, however the Bagel Medici honestly believe that everything of value belongs to them.
And in the USA to whom does the oil belong?
The Russian people don't enter the equation unfortunately. When one kleptocrat steals from another kleptocrat it's not really setting things right.
BP
I agree 100%. If I were in charge of this issue for Russia there would be some juges that would be taking dirt naps. Khodorovsky would be worm food as well.
Or maybe I would remind these nations that this is an act of war.
These fucking assholes really are trying very hard to start a war with Russia.
This is as absurd as some of these cases where lawsuits were filed in the European courts against the US. In those lawsuit it was always the case of "who cares the outcome. Good luck enforcing that judgment".
What Russiya wants Russiya takes? Thanks for confirming that there will never be a place for real capitalism in Putin's Russia.
It would be better if you learn about Yukos case before spouting same shit again n again .
Western standards:
Repeat elections / referenda until the correct result occurs.
Multiple trials for the same (alleged) crime is acceptable.
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I suspect that shit will get real in one quick hurry. That is how Russia will respond to the little boys in Brussels.
But first the EU must try and kill them with appeasement
An obvious kangaroo court
Zeker wete
how do you prove a tax penalty action and jail time for constructive accounting fraud was "politically motivated" ? show me how easy that could have been?
how does a phony valuation for $300 million when the assets are worth $30 Billion twenty years ago not provable to a court in Brussels?- when the properties within Yukos were fixed and identifiable and the price of oil is readily available for evaluation of proven and probable reserves?
The real problem is the world looks at the USA motivation in control of this and applies it to all the international systems under US control - the world is going the other way in mass and quickly - they know everyones public assets can be stolen for the slightest pretext
Full court press on the "evil" Russians. Check out this forecast piece by Stratfor... 11 chilling predictions. Apparently Russia will collapse, US will send troops on the ground to secure nuclear missills, and Poland will rise to the heights of Europe. LOL... you can't make this stuff up.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-has-11-chilling-predictions-for-...
I didn't even know Stratfor did comedy
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You seemed to know that faster than anyone else; how much do you pay his mom for Cleveland Steamers?
Your momma is so fat she sat on Walmart and lowered prices
Maybe GM bondholders can get Putin to sieze USSA assets in Russia.
Interesting you mention this, because I wrote an article paralleling the two events last week.
Russia bias: Where was World Court in fining U.S. for thefts during GM takeover?
http://www.examiner.com/article/russia-bias-where-was-world-court-fining-u-s-for-thefts-during-gm-takeover
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
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ah start of the day for the trolls
So...Khordokovsky is NOT an arrogant billionaire thief?
“I expect that the money will be spent on projects that will benefit Russian society.”
I bet that was his motto when him and his cronies were running the show. Like all rich people with political aspirations, he just wanted what's best for his people.
Sniff.
Not coincidentally, Yukos was the corrupt stolen assets company that, when Khodorkovsky was arrested he passed shares on to the Rothschild bank.
But the Rothschilds are just a relic of the 19th century. They were acknowledged as being almost unfathomably wealthy back then and no one's ever heard of them suffering any kind of significant financial reversal since then but they don't exist any more. They just happened to be the emergency conduit for a crook to try to pass off huge assets stolen from the russian people. But they don't mean anything any more. The mainstream media says so through their silence.
You are of course being sarcastic when you say Lord Rottenchild and his ilk mean nothing anymore. Evil walks in dark chambers and still calls shots these days even though a growing number of people are waking up. The internet has made the awakening much easier.
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If the asset seizures impact the right people, Russia might sieze all those assets of BP, Shell, and Cheveron that are currently in their costal waters...
Right now, threats from the IMF, The Fed, and NATO are big nothing burgers...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a hero of hebrew modern histories.
a giant a figure of awe to your average pole lack and
tel aviver.
to give hollowed out soul his blood sweat tears and company shell to the rothschild family as tribute shows the kosher meat of the man.
his love of man and man woman woman church marriage and transgenda soros politics is legend.
his support of babrbara spector jewish forced multiculturalism via refugee is to be rabbi praised.
clearly with this man we have someone all satanists,luciferians,masonics and the mossads cn get behind.
the wealth of russia needs to be given back to zion as per tslmudick moon saturn writings tings
Name change again antoninus? You really must try to refrain from exposing the rabies little plans, its quite antisemenetic. Its not their fault that they think Lucifer, who educates them, is g_d. A cutout is probably sincere and doesn't know its a cutout.
Tony Tony Tony. That was almost comprehensible. You're slipping!
Once Putin gleaves the political stage the USA needs to be very careful because I doubt that Putin's successor will be as controlled.
I suspect there will be random assasinations, random bombings of key installations and maybe even an EMP.
If they get over the annexation of Crimea, I am sure the two of them can get together and work out an acceptable deal which involves both Russia and the USA backing off and in particular all missiles being withdrawn both in and around Ukraine as well as other countries bordering Russia.
Russia has been backing up and backing down since Cuba. There was a little backbone wit Vietnam but that is all.
And since Russia has let the west destroy many of Russia's once key allies, Russia has fewer options. Just think if Iraq, Libya, Syria, Serbia and others were still intact.
These things are happening because there is no fear of Russia or Putin. It is very humorous that once Putin was made out to be the scary guy, judo master, no shirt guy. Before his impotence was attributed to him being the master chess player. Now it is excused as being "controlled". It is weakness due to conflict of interests.
Russia and Putin play chess.
Trayvon-Amerika plays with Kaitlan Jenner's verginia.
Russia signed Energy charter but not ratify it. So it is not under its jurisdiction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Charter_Treaty
Something why TTIP etc are so secretively pushed forward. Private courts for corporate purposes
Today Russia, tomorrow the rest of us. Thanks, TTIP.
The REAL reason the US/Rothschilds Hate Putin, is that they weren't done plundering the country when he was arrested.
The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s real crime was not stealing Russia’s assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin. His real crime is that he was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state. When the facts are known the justice served on him is mild by comparison to US or UK standard treatment of those convicted of treason against the state. Obama’s torture prison at Guantánamo is merely one example of Washington’s double standard.
But there was more. Khodorkovsky built some impressive ties in the West. With his new billions in effect stolen from the Russian people, he made some powerful friends. He set up a foundation modeled on US billionaire George Soros’ Open Society, calling it the Open Russia Foundation. He invited two powerful Westerners to its board—Henry Kissinger and Jacob Lord Rothschild. Then he set about to develop ties with some of the most powerful circles in Washington where he was named to the Advisory Board of the secretive private equity firm, Carlyle Group where he attended board meetings with fellow advisors such as George H.W. Bush and James Baker III.
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Moreover, at the time of his arrest Khodorkovsky was in the process of negotiating via his Carlyle friend George H.W. Bush, father of the then-President George W. Bush, the sale of 40% of Yukos to either Condi Rice’s former company, Chevron or ExxonMobil in a move that would have dealt a crippling blow to the one asset left Russia and Putin to use for the rebuilding of the wrecked Russian economy: oil and export via state-owned pipelines to the West for dollars. During the ensuing Russian state prosecution of Yukos, it came to light that Khodorkovsky had also secretly made a contract with London’s Lord Rothschild not merely to support Russian culture via the Open Russia Foundation of Khodorkovsky. In the event of his possible arrest (Khodorkovsky evidently knew he was playing a high-risk game trying to create a coup against Putin) the 40% share of his Yukos stocks would pass into the hands of Lord Rothschild.
"40% share of his Yukos stocks would pass into the hands of Lord Rothschild."
According to a Washington Times article a few years ago, Jacob Rothschild was within 24 hours of obtaining all the Yukos stock from Mr. K when the Russian tax authorities swooped in and confiscated it all.
I also noticed that this article said nothing about the 2 reviews by the European Court of Human Rights that said Mr. K deserved to be in prison and that Russian prosecution was not political.
Even Gorby told about how Kordorkovsky evaded taxes on massive scale
Said Putin in July 2014 in regard to ignoring the Yukos ruling:
“There is a war coming in Europe,” he said. “Do you really think this matters?”
The cleanest solution would simply be to withdraw from the (minimum required) treaties upon which the tribunal based its jurisdiction. Which in this case would also open the door to renegotiating contracts with other foreign oil companies operating in Russia.
http://www.softpanorama.info/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_mafia.shtml
All current Yukos owners like Khod are Jews. RUSSIA is less than 2% Jewish...nearly all live in Moscow, and they are heavy in the Russian mob. At the end of Yeltsin's regime, status post a firesale of state assets, almost all of the oligarchs were Jews. Khod.'s foundation was topheavy with Jews, Russian and foreign, as were the economists who helped a cabal of Jews plunder Russia.
Some escaped to The UK, some Israel, some died. Putin played some oligarchs, including Jewish ones, against others, and Russia and the Russian people began to recover.
The court decision is.prima facie absurd. These thieves did cheat on their taxes. But they also came largely to own what they did through conspiracy and fraud.
Jews are the most, best internationally organized ethnic or religiius group. They are disproportionately wealthy and powerful transnationally. If you think this is all to do charity work ( mostly for Jewish causes and Israel) or to combat 'anti-Semitism ( mostly obfuscating and punishing discussion of Jewish power or questioning Israel or Zionist revisionist history ) consider that you may be mistaken.
Consider that the oceans of ink dedicated across 2200 years of civilization criticizing Jewish ethics as to non-Jews, and the racist, xenophobic exhortations you may read for yourslef, and *replete* in Torah and other "sage" Jewish writings, is at least more than de minimus evidence that some Jews, elite Jews, conspire to advance themselves, and/or Jewry, and/or Israel, with no regard as to the cost or fairness to the 'goyim' who lay largely outside yahweh's anti-human ethics.
"We imagine this will only serve to further inflame tensions between Russia and Europe"
'Russia and Europe'...? As if 'Europe' makes any decisions on its own that have to do with foreign policy towards Russia? Please...
Just read this weekend : Belgium's foreign secretary announced the seizures would be undone and the law changed so that diplomatic accounts and institutions would be immune to seizures.
"Fuck the EU"
whenever i hear the word "belgium" now I can't help but think, "US Vassal responsible for buying up QE slop". Its not a rational reach to see them doing Uncle Slams bidding in other geopolitical arenas.
The TRUTH about the CONFLICT with RUSSIA >>> https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-...
but it is not the truth..
True Scythians are Semitic indo-european features. Witness the Scythian burials and art discovered Asia and Europe
Khazars were Japeth turkish mongol type, never occupied lands known as greater Scythia, only the Pale.
Scythians, a term the Greeks used for people of a region, were possibly many things - but Semitic is not one of them.
Proto-Persian {'Aryan'} is much more likely.
Of course, none of it really matters anyway.
Perhaps the thing for Russia to do is let the conniving West seize some of its assets in foreign courts. Then can a Russian court allow Russia to impound the ISS until such time as the UN restricts the ability of one nation's court to seize the property of another nation (Including the presumption of the American courts to tell Argentina the order in which to repay its debt). Until such time as there is such agreement, Russia will decide who is permitted on the station and when.
It could be Russia is setting up such a maneuver. In the last few months, there have been several mishaps with Roscosmos' launchings, including the explosion of a Proton rocket carrying a huge $300 million Mexican comsat
These setbacks in delivering supplies to the ISS and satellites into orbit (the Mexican comsat was insured) could be exactly that, setbacks. OTOH, the chess playing Russians may be getting tired of the 'holier-than-thou' West and created these 'mishaps' as subterfuge for the Russian takeover of the ISS.
These mishaps force Roscosmos to be extremely cautious about launching rockets in the future with astronauts aboard. Decisions that Roscosmos alone can decide.
For the last few weeks we've seen stories about Roscosmos changing the schedule for the departure of supplies and crew to the station
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/astronauts-delayed-return-from-internatio...
The ISS usually is staffed with 6 astronauts, but has been at half staff for several weeks. 3 more astronauts are supposed to arrive at the end of July and more supplies a week from Friday.
Unless the Russians decide to commandeer the Station. Quien sabe?
I'm sure I'm making too much out of this story this week-end. But, heck, why not?
Orbital alert: Computer glitch activates alarm at Intl Space Stationhttp://rt.com/news/268675-iss-computer-glitch-fixed/
THINK, MY FRIENDS. WITH RUSSIA POSSIBLY ON THE VERGE OF TAKING OVER THE ISS, ALL COMMUICATION TO THE AMERICAN SEGMENT AND COMPUTER MUST FLOW THROUGH RUSSIAN LINES.
How obvious is that?
Russia must sell its portfolio of US Treasuries and quickly.
The US government can confiscate it anytime soon.
China should think about it too. Hillary says that she will treat China like North Korea, Iran and Russia.
Even a basic look into the facts of the Yukos case will show that basically the Jewish Banking and Political elite wanted to gut Russia like a fish. Putin told the Yukos thieves 'A tia bis te sukas'.
That the US is going along with this banking/political cartel speaks volumns about the leadership of the US. The US is no longer a moral country. Full stop.
What Russia is now realizing - and you must realize that beneath their cold, frosty exterior, Russians are generally optimistic people 'hope dies last' as they say. What the Russians are now learning is that there will be no quarter given with the US, EU or the NWO.
Vladimir Putin has just now had his hope die. He now knows that the US has started WWIII. Remember, that in WWII the US seized all of the assets of the Japanese in the US shortly before they 'declared war' on the Japanese.
I expect Moscow to continue to keep a polite and agreeable front. I expect Moscow to continue to placate the west insomuch as possible. For the seizures they will do a tit for tat and let the University of Moscow Legal Graduates earn their keep. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, they are gearing up for that day in the future when they (US,EU,Zionist) try to bring death to their door.
Putin is not silly as to telegraph his intentions, but I can assure you the minute his line is crossed in his mind he will act with speed, precision and force. In his mind he has made a decision and I suppose the US/EU/NWO will keep probing until they hit that trip wire.
As for those who are buying into the propaganda put out by the US MSM, the Internet has enough information in it that if you take the blinkers off you can see that you are being fed a line by the same US government that is taxing you to death so the Goldman bankers can have $500 lunches, eating up your nest egg while they talk about how to make money off the crash coming up in October.
Good article, some very good comments.
well, perhaps Russians can seize assets of Western NGOs in Russia, that would be like killing two birds with one stone:-)
In the 1990's Russia’s best State assets including Yukos were acquired from the Russian government under the the US pet drunk Boris Yeltsen's unbelievably corrupt "loans for shares"* by Russian oligarch including Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep during the controversial "loans for shares" auctions of the mid 1990s. Khodorkovsy’s minions proceeded to rape and pillage Yukos profits. Once Putin got in control, and started to get the Yeltsin corruption under control, he kicked the Khodorkovsky cabal out of Russia and started to repatriate the assets of the Russian people stolen from the Russian Government under "loans for shares", but not before Khodorkovsky managed to transfer their essentially stolen loot out of Russia.
*In “loans for shares”, on November 3, 1995, in midwinter in the remote Siberian town of Surgut, an auction was held for the right to "lend" the essentially collapsed Russian government tens of million of dollars, with forecloseable stakes of Russian government assets, including Yukos as collateral. Of course there was never any intentions that these
"loans" would be repaid and the collareral redeemed.
Only two bidders made it to the auction room, (a third was disqualified because of paperwork). Any other bidders RHr planned to fly over from Moscow found that the local airport ‘mysteriously’ chose to close for the day. The resulting purloined assets were sold off to “selected private investors” in an act that impoverished the Russian people and transferred the wealth of these asset-rich companies to a select group of oligarchs including Khodorkovsky and his cabal.
Vlad, Vlad, Vald! Just shut off the gas already!
According to Wikipedia, "Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild upon" Khodorkovsky's arrest.
Perhaps his lordship gave them back to Khodorkovsky at some point?
Basically west has thrown the towel down
"Fcuk you Russia" is what they mean.
Since euroPeons are puppets of Satan America ,
and since America wants a world war to boost up its economy
hence euroPeons act like that, it is actually a financial Nuclear weapon.
Psst : When you wanna rape a bear , what'd happen... hahaha I wont tell you.