Chapter 455: Podanov's Advantage
Friedman's eyes were already shining when he heard this, and although Aldridge on the other side had not yet spoken clearly, the meaning was already quite clear
Needless to say, this must be a good show of abnormal embezzlement of state assets, and the protagonist must be that Potanov, good fellow, if what this Aldridge said is true, then this Potanov's good days will come to an end.
You must know that the current strong President Putin hates such an individual embezzlement of state-owned assets the most, and most of the oligarchs in Russia have relied on these means to get started.
For example, Khodorkovsky, who has been imprisoned, such as Abu, a close friend of President Putin, such as himself, if he really carefully investigates the bottom line, it is estimated that few of the existing super-rich in Russia have clean butts.
It's just that everyone usually hides it very well, and the distance between them and the president's relatives is different, if the president is really serious, I'm afraid most people will go to prison now.
This Podanov has been rampant in Central and Eastern Siberia for a while by virtue of his close relationship with those natives, and now not only does he look at him unpleasantly, but even the president is wary of him.
Aldridge had stopped talking by this time, and Friedman had already recovered from the ecstasy just now, and neither of them said anything more, just smiled at each other.
"Dear Aldridge, stay for dinner today, I have the best caviar in Russia, and foie gras and truffles that have just been flown in from France today.
"Hehe, then I'm disrespectful, I'm just a little hungry!"
The convoy slowly drove out of the villa, and the villa hidden in the depths of a birch forest gradually disappeared from the rearview mirror, and Jin Xiaoqiang, who was sitting in the car, could finally relax his nerves and breathe a sigh of relief.
The matter has been explained to this Friedman, and I believe that he should know very well what to do next, and he can completely leave it alone.
If you talk about hatred for that Potanov, it is estimated that no one hates this Potanov more than this Friedman, he just handed a knife to Friedman's hand, if he doesn't know how to use it, then he is not worthy of being the chairman of the Alpha Consortium at all.
Kazan is the third largest city in Russia and the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, where a large number of Russians live, but at the same time there are many more Tatars.
The ancestors of the Tatars were actually a cross between the Mongols who went on an expedition to the east and the Turks who were driven away by the Han and Tang dynasties earlier.
After the Mongol crusade, it was the center of the kingdom founded by the Mongols in the Eastern Crusade, until the Golden Horde was divided and then Russia rose, and it was annexed to Russia by Ivan the Terrible.
After the annexation of the Russian territory, the Tatars here were not treated well in Russia, generally inferior national treatment and there was no "democratic" at that time, the saying of equality, Ivan the Terrible at that time forbade the local Tatars to practice Islam also caused several bloody conflicts, but unfortunately later ended in the bloodshed of the Tatars.
It was not until Catherine II usurped the throne that she was a German from Germany, who was not very religious to Orthodox Christianity, and had a very good impression of the city when she fulfilled her duties in Kazan, so she lifted the ban on Islam in the region.
Later, during World War II, a large number of close relatives of the Tatars, some of the Mongols who fled from the Celestial Empire entered the country, which led to the great wonder of the prevalence of various religions in this country and the peaceful coexistence of various religions. …,
In the city, the main religions are Islam and Orthodox Christianity, then Catholicism and Lamaism, which came from the Celestial Empire, and the peaceful coexistence of the four religions is also a wonder in the world.
This city can be said to be one of the most intense collisions between Eastern and Western cultures in the world, but it is one of the most perfect cities in the world.
Because the majority of the population is Tatar and people have lived here for hundreds of years, even though Russia has carried out several massacres of Tatars and forcibly relocated many Russians to settle here, it still does not erase the imprint left by the Tatars in this city.
Especially later, after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Russia's national strength declined, and the control over such a large minority population area became weaker and weaker, and many Russians were afraid that there would be changes like Chechnya, resulting in genocide, so they moved back to Russia in large numbers, and this Republic of Tatarstan once wanted to be independent from the territory of Russia, and then Yeltsin flew to Tatarstan six times in a row to meet with the leaders of the Tatars, promising many benefits. This pacified Tatarstan and left the republic on the territory of Russia.
In recent years, the Tatars have become more and more assertive in this country, and many of their close relatives, the Tuvans and Buryat Mongols, have migrated into the country.
There are even many Mongolian nationals who have moved in and settled here, which has quietly turned this country into a small center of the Mongolian world.
Although most of the Tatars did not have the same beliefs or even the appearance of their cousins, the Mongols, this did not prevent them from being close relatives. Kazan State University in Kazan is home to a large number of students from Buryatia, Mongolia, Tuva and Mongolia.
One of them is Gezhletu, who has been in Kazan for five years and usually lives in his uncle's house, until two years ago, when he was admitted to Kazan University, he moved out of his uncle's house and into the school's dormitory.
However, during the holidays, he had to go back to the Mongolian barbecue shop opened by his uncle to help and earn a little pocket money, and he would work for six or seven hours at a time, but he was half tired to death.
Uncle treated him well, but his Tatar aunt really made him feel a little choked, and that woman only had money in her eyes, and she was usually very stingy with him.
Every time he had to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, but when he was paid, he was often given the least, and if it weren't for his uncle's face, Geriletu would have fallen out with his aunt a long time ago.
Looking at the other students who came to Mongolia on campus, one by one they wore gold and silver, and the chicks around them almost changed once a week, and they didn't live in the dormitory of the school at all, bought a mansion outside the campus, and drove a luxury car.
Once upon a time, he should have been one of them, but everything began to change quietly a few years ago, and when he thought of that change, Geriletu couldn't help but curse in his heart again.
Those damned Russians, and damned Mongols, if they hadn't been mixed up and framed their father, how could they have fallen from a noble son to the point where they can only work as a small worker and wash dishes today?
Geriltu's father, Alatan Ullah, was a student studying in the Soviet Union in the early years, when the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed.
After his father returned to China after completing his studies, he entered the copper-molybdenum mine in Erdenet, where at that time it was still a state-owned enterprise, and the copper-molybdenum ore produced every year was sold directly to the Russians. …,
His father's technical skills were very strong, so he soon became an engineer in the factory, and their family had a very good time.
But when he was just about ten years old, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Erdenet copper-molybdenum mine became a joint operation between Mongolia and Russia.
At that time, it was really beautiful, but unfortunately the good times were short-lived, and in 2002, according to the original contract, the date of joint development of the Erdenet mine and Russia was about to expire.
The entire copper-molybdenum mine will be nationalized by the Great Hural, and the Russians certainly do not want to, and the father, who was the manager of the copper-molybdenum mining company at that time, was inexplicably ousted because of his background of studying in the former Soviet Union.
The Russians were very dissatisfied with the toughness of the Mongols, but they could not do anything about the Mongols, knowing that the border with Mongolia to the north was Buryat Mongolia, Tuva to the west, and their close relatives Tatarstan to the west.
So the Russians really didn't dare to do anything with Mongolia, and in the end the two countries had a very unpleasant quarrel, but in the end the matter was over.
If all of this copper-molybdenum mine had been nationalized by the Great Hural, Geriltu would not have been so angry, but the fact is that although the mine was nominally nationalized by the Great Hural, in fact the state's stake in the company has fallen instead of rising.
And most of the other shares of this company were bought by a company called Wuyun Qiqige, and the background of this company has a very strong Russian flavor......
"Hello, are you a classmate of Geriletu?"
On that day, Geriletu was stopped by a Russian on his way to school.
"I. That is, who are? ”
"Hello, my name is Pavlov, and I am a classmate of your father Alatan Ula when he was studying in Russia......"
The other party was very enthusiastic and made a move.