Chapter 451: The Alpha Consortium
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With so many oil companies infiltrating Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia, the areas controlled by the previously monolithic Sugurt Oil and Gas Company will naturally become loose.
It turned out that this Podanov was able to cooperate with the local natives and exploit their underground oil by relying on good relations with the local natives.
However, it is inevitable that there are some minorities who will be dissatisfied with the conditions offered by Sugurt Oil and Gas, but they have to succumb to Sugurt Oil and Gas's coercion and cooperate with them.
Now that there are so many oil companies infiltrating the exclusion zone, there are many more options for the minority who are dissatisfied with Sugurt Oil & Gas.
In this way, Potanov's control over the Central and Eastern Siberian regions will naturally be much weaker, and with the construction of these oil pipelines, there will certainly be more Russians who will seek opportunities wherever a large number of jobs will be provided.
It will be more conducive to regional stability, and Russia's originally somewhat lax control over Central Siberia will also stabilize with the increase of Russians.
This Putin, this strategy of killing birds with one stone is really good!
After Adrica's prompt, after his own analysis, Jin Xiaoqiang's current situation is also clear.
It seems that Putin is not opposed to Yukos's participation in the construction of the Tana Line, and even in his opinion, the more Yukos invests, the better, and the more companies involved, the better.
In this way, he will be able to get rid of his dependence on Potanov, you must know that during the Chechen crisis, in order to stabilize the ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Siberia from becoming independent, the Russian government has spent a lot of efforts to divide these ethnic minorities into many minority autonomous oblasts.
In these places, the control of the Russian central government is quite weak, and in recent years, the most troublesome problem of the Russian government is the weakening of its control over the local areas.
Hesitating that Russia's population has been declining year after year, it has entered a period of negative growth, and a large number of Russians who have settled in Asia have begun to move back to their European home countries, and the Russian government is most afraid of chaos in Central and Eastern Siberia.
Therefore, in order to stabilize the Central and Eastern Siberian region in the past few years, Putin has given a lot of privileges to the minorities in those places, and also took special care, and the only thing he can rely on is Potanov who communicates with those minorities.
The construction of the Tanner Line this time has to be said to be a good opportunity for Putin and the Russian government he is in charge of to disperse and dissolve those minorities in Central and Eastern Siberia, and gradually get rid of their dependence on Potanov.
After understanding these ways, Jin Xiaoqiang's heart also has a bottom.
"So what are we going to do next?"
Jin Xiaoqiang asked Adelka again that since the highest power figure in Russia did not object to his participation in the construction of the Tana Line, then he was not afraid to fight against that Potanov.
But how to deal with this Potanov, he still has to consult Adelka's opinion, after all, Potanov is a native of Russia.
And in Russia, this guy has been in business for so many years, he has long been entrenched, and he also has a special relationship with Putin, how to deal with him is not an easy thing.
"Go to Mikhail. Friedman! ”
Adelka was concise and didn't say it deeply, but his words made Jin Xiaoqiang feel a little enlightened.
"To find the hermit? Haha, that's a great way to do it! ”
Jin Xiaoqiang laughed and said, he had already understood Adelka's intentions at once, he was worthy of playing politics, and he really had a thorough understanding of the whole thing, and he immediately pointed to the core of the problem. …,
Mikhail. The founder of Friedman's Russian Alpha Group, a powerful figure on par with many early oligarchs, was no less than a business genius like Khodorkovsky.
However, he is very low-key, does not like to show his face everywhere, and is not like Khodorkovsky and Abu, who are often exposed to big news.
As the founder of the Alpha Group, the most influential business group in Russia, he has always lived a very low-key life and does not often appear in front of the flash.
And he is also a benchmark, one of the early oligarchs who did not compromise like Putin, but got the most nourishment in Russia, even Putin has nothing to do with him.
The reason is also very simple, because he has been a very speculative businessman since the former Soviet Union, and when it came to the Russian period, he went one step further, not only engaged in commercial speculation, but also engaged in political speculation.
Many of the executives of his Alpha Group were once high-ranking officials in the former Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, he was still very close to the largest party in the Russian State Duma, the Solidarity Party.
During the Yeltsin era, the Solidarity Party was the undisputed number one party in the Russian State Dumar and continued until Putin's first term in power.
It was not until later that the United Russia party led by Putin, relying on Putin's influence, slowly came from behind, and the Unity Party became the second largest party in the State Duma, but in Russia's State Duma, it still has considerable influence and considerable control in many regions of Russia.
If in front of Putin, then Vladimir. Podanov is a not very obedient dog, but this Mikhail. Friedman can be seen as an unruly wolf.
The destructive power he can bring to Putin and Russia is much greater than that of Napodanov.
If Potanov and Putin get into a stalemate, it will only be to encourage those natives of East Siberia to fight for independence, and it will not hurt Russia itself too much.
But if Putin and this Friedman have a stalemate, it may completely disintegrate the whole of Russia and wipe out the country.
Because many of the regions controlled by the Solidarity Party are the best parts of Russia in Europe, where is the foundation of the Russian state.
So although Putin is very unaccustomed to this Mikhail. Friedman, and his Alpha Company, but they didn't dare to offend him.
Fortunately, this Friedman is very sensible, very low-key, does not often appear in front of the media, and does not make any criticism of the current Russian authorities, and his Unity Party is also in harmony with the United Russia Party led by Putin, and sometimes chooses some small-scale cooperation, so for now, the two sides get along well.
The reason why Adrica asked Jin Xiaoqiang to find Friedman is because of his influence in Russia, as well as the control of his Alpha consortium, and his control of that Vladimir. The degree of hatred of Podanov.
This Mikhail. When Friedman founded the Alpha Group, this group was first involved in banking, insurance, foreign trade and other industries, and it developed rapidly during the Yeltsin era, and had close ties with many senior government officials at that time.
It is precisely because of this relationship that Alfa Ace, a subsidiary of the Alpha Consortium, has become Russia's largest exporter of oil and petroleum products, and has a special license issued by the government.
With such a license, Alfa Aicke can enter and exit the state-controlled oil pipelines at will to carry out oil import and export trade.
How privilege is that?
Later, they also took a controlling stake in the Tyumen company and cooperated with the British BP, which made BP the world's largest oil producer at that time, and BP-Tyumen suddenly became the second largest oil producer in Russia, at that time only below Yukos. …,
In the era of Putin's rule, Alpha Ike still holds a special license and can enter and exit state-controlled oil pipelines at will.
Moreover, he is also the most enthusiastic advocate of the expansion of oil pipelines, and has also actively cooperated with Gazprom to build and expand many natural gas transmission pipelines to Western European countries.
Moreover, as one of the few large companies in China that can do oil and petroleum products, import and export business, they have also actively brought a lot of business to China, and provided funds for many oil companies' oil fields to build new oil pipelines and increase transportation volume.
Overall, this company still makes Putin feel very comfortable, which is why he moved so many people, but he didn't move Friedman, this guy is still quite good.
But this Friedman also has an enemy, that is, Napodanov, as the controlling person behind BP-Tyumen, after Yukos was spun off, BP-Tyumen not only failed to rise in the ranking, but was surpassed by Russ Oil and Siberian Oil, and has now fallen to third place.
Yukos didn't eat his mouth, which had already made Friedman very angry, but the company's desire to expand eastward was blocked by the old stubborn Potanov, how could this not make Friedman angry?
This work of building an oil pipeline can be said to be a unique trick and a good trick for Friedman's Alpha Ike Company, but this time, in order to protect his own interests, Potanov is asking Putin to try his best to limit the eastward invasion of the Alpha Group and reduce BP-Tyumen's investment in the future construction of the oil pipeline.
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