Posted on 06/30/2007 11:01:34 AM PDT by ken21
Under Mr. Putin, the handful of people who run Russia also own it. Government officials are on the board of Russia's largest state-run companies. First Deputy Premier Dmitri Medvedev is chairman of the board of Gazprom, Igor Sechin, deputy head of the Kremlin administration, is chairman of the Rosneft oil company, and Igor Shuvalov, an assistant to the president, is chairman of Russian Railroads. The capitalization of Gazprom is $236 billion, Rosneft $94 billion and Russian Railroads $50 billion. It is estimated that the people around Mr. Putin control companies that account for 80% of the capitalization of the Russian stock market.
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Yeah. Bush’s heart seeing meter was way off on ol’ Pootie-poo.
>Putin’s soul<
Sold to Satan years ago.
The fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London, along with all the other suspicious murders and attempted murders of Kremlin critics in recent months, poses fundamental questions about Russia, and how the West should treat it.
Since most of these crimes remain unsolved, we can only speculate about who is behind them. We would certainly prefer not to suspect that anyone connected to President Vladimir Putin is involved, even if the attacks have the hallmarks of professional assassinations.
Putin’s soul. The fossilized microscopic analysis was not complete last I heard. Keep us up to date if they actually find it. ;)
I suppose you could get three of his for one of my (very soiled) soul.
He's a red-handed murdering KGB sonofawh*re.
If he had a soul it has evaporated long since.
agree.
Did see this :
currently Russians staying in town who are entitled to diplomatic immunity
A Russian man attempted to pass off a phony $100 bill at the New Hampshire State Liquor store ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858453/posts
what floored me was the size of gazprom.
at $236 billion it’s multiples the size of any u.s. corporation.
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