The largest wineries of the annexed Crimea, such as "Massandra" and "New World", were today "squeezed" by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his entourage. The once successful factories are in decline due to the inability of the invaders to dispose of the prey.
This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov in his blog on the website "Crimea. Realities ".
Portnikov noted that the Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov, after the annexation of the Crimea, was determined to seize the wineries of the peninsula.
"I read a large study of the Russian Internet publication Medusa, dedicated to the fate of Crimean winemaking. Boris Titov there is mentioned only once - when it comes to the attempts of the ombudsman to crush the "New World". But the bulk of the text is devoted to the unenviable fate of the famous "Massandra", transferred to the balance of the administration of affairs of the President of the Russian Federation. In Russia, everyone knows that behind this simple formula lies a much simpler phrase - "wrung out by Vladimir Putin," he writes..
"Occupants are different. After all, you still need to be able to dispose of the captured. The trouble of modern Russia is not only a complete contempt for the norms of international law and morality, it is also a blatant unprofessionalism. And in the fate of the Crimean winemaking it manifests itself very brightly. "Massandra" will cease to be "Massandra", "New World" - "New Light". Putin and Titov will succeed. Or rather - it will not work, "- said Portnikov.
According to the journalist, today everyone before our eyes is dying what was the essence of life on the peninsula, not only during his stay in the Ukrainian SSR and independent Ukraine, but also in pre-Soviet times.
"To the local robbers of the Crimea, who were still afraid to cut the branch on which they sit, Moscow looters. Many of them are well aware that sooner or later the peninsula will have to refuse. And so they hurry to crush it in their hands like a ripe fruit, "he said..
Portnikov recalled that the attitude of the Russian authorities towards the Kaliningrad region after the Second World War was approximately the same: "It seemed that this territory in the USSR was not very long, and therefore all of it was only exported.
When 30 years later, after the meeting in Helsinki, the borders in Europe became firm, the Kaliningrad region decided to develop - but it was already late, the former East Prussia finally turned into a deaf Russian province ".
"Crimea - if it will not be quickly released from looters - the same sad fate awaits," he concluded..
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