One of the guys who covers Russian finance reported that the government is taxing Gazprom and a related company on the world market price even though the price Gazprom can sell for is capped below that price. In other words, they’re being taxed for money profits they did not make. My guess is the workers have not been paid and this has resulted in violence. This may be a case of theft rolling downhill.
As a matter of interest, Russia’s various companies are hiring their own mercenaries. This is probably to keep the various higher-ups safe from roving armed thieves and other issues you’d expect if civil society broke down.
Gazprom has also stood up their own Wagner- like paramilitary force.
Wonder what that costs, and can they use it to put down the workers?
—” In other words, they’re being taxed for money profits they did not make.”
IIRC that very question is now pending before the USSC.