Here is an ominous report with sordid details as to how Royal Dutch Shell has lost half its $22 billion investment in its project on Sakhalin Island to Gazprom, the Russian national gas consortium (Да, this is who former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder works for):

“A guy says, ‘Give me half of what is in your pocket, or I shoot you and kill you,’” says Oppenheimer oil analyst Fadel Gheit. “You give him half and say, ‘Thank God I am alive to live another day.’ They could have lost all of it.”

As sad as it is to say this, Pooty is reconstituting the CCCP in all but name. Remember folks, it all started with Yukos.

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