According to the instructions for the killing of the irremovable and supposedly immortal Kashchei Vladimirovich, it is known that you first need to find an oak. With this business there are no problems, for the oaks themselves came to our land. If anyone remembers, there was a saying in the scoop: "The more oaks in the army, the stronger our defense". So, the oaks simply fell in with thousands to us whether on vacation, or because of geographical stupidity, getting lost, but it's our business to saw them and send them back with a load of 200. With this, the clarity is complete. Then, according to the same instructions, it is necessary to find a casket in which the hare sits. As for the gilded casket, it is already known that Putin is rebuilding the "professional" house in Crimea, although other caskets have been identified, for example - in Gelendzhik.
Each of these Putin's chests is worth a billion dollars, so according to the description - is suitable. Here with a hare, probably, there was a blunder. As far as we know, Putin had Siberian Cranes and a bitch Connie, perhaps she also played the role of a hare, but having worn out with her master, she successfully succumbed. After this, a duck was to appear on the stage, and it did appear. The eternally sleeping Dimon will already be associated with a dash. And if so, then it's almost at the finish. There is an egg and a needle left. We leave to the reader's taste the arguments about the eggs, and turn to the needle.
It is clear that the national leader has put together a quarter of a trillion dollars of personal bachelor's stash not from one source. Here, oil, and budgets on construction sites and industries, and other, no less original combinations, by which he preempted all known and unknown fraudsters, including Andy Tucker and Ostap Bender. Once Putin's example will be cited in textbooks on the history of the criminal world, as a phenomenally successful ripper of the budget. But the most revealing of his personal estate is Gazprom. Simply because the gas is transported, mainly by pipes, it has become a special commodity, not quite like even oil. The main thing is to hold the pipe to the consumer's pocket, and there it is already possible to apply a hundred ways, with respect to the pure concealment of the bubble.
In short, it is Gazprom that is an indicator of well-being, or vice versa, of Putin himself. For, paraphrasing the old Party slogans: "We say Gazprom, we mean - Putin. We are talking Putin, we mean - Gazprom ". Wherever Gazprom needed to lay or take a pipe, there were certainly wars or something close to them, and certainly wars arose where the competitor's pipe could pass. Putin pathologically does not tolerate competition and just does not like to part with personal money. Therefore herds of his military, who are still paying salaries, agree to a slow but sure transformation into chernozem.
But it seems that the needle from the egg of an eternally sleeping duck, still got it and now it is close to breaking down. The point, of course, is that the price of gas has fallen almost threefold, but not only in this. By coincidence, a giant company selling incredible quantities of gas managed to get into huge debts. This was because the wise leadership of the country and the company itself assumed a steady rise in the price of gas and firm positions in the sales markets. Under such a theory boldly took billions of dollars and just boldly sawed the above-mentioned Putin and his accomplices. It was assumed that with an increase in prices, loans can be given without problems. But prices fell, and debts - remained. In order to naturally not fly out into the pipe, you need to sell more gas at low prices. This leads to a rapid devastation of the reserves of explored and developed deposits. All growth prospects found themselves on the shelf of the northern seas, as the well-known Shtokman deposit, about which these figures spoke so loudly and about which now everyone shut up unanimously.
Nobody in their right mind will not get there, not only because of the high cost price, but also because they will not be able to sell it. So long spitting Moscow slate survived and went around the world triumphal procession. The US market for gas has already closed and from there the expansion of LNG begins, and Americans are able and like to trade in a competitive environment. If they have already undertaken to squeeze out the market share at the expense of stupid mismanagement, they will do it by all means.
And those prospects that warmed the soul to Putin and his shobla began to dissolve like smoke. Europe is not today - tomorrow, will begin to reduce purchases of Russian gas. Today Poland has shown how it will be approximately.
She refused to accept Gazprom's gas because of its poor quality. This is an alarm bell, showing the fragility of Gazprom's European positions, and especially its projects with the laying of new pipes. And if you add to this the fact that Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine have already stopped buying gas from Russia, then the outlook looms sad.
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