Some of the links have been scrubbed I have found out since the printing of this book: “Clinton Cash”...
When Hillary was confirmed as S. of S. in January 2009, dealing with Vladimire Putin would become a major part of her job. And the uranium deal in Kazakhstan, whose shareholders were sending in tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and were also providing ‘speechmaking’ opportunities for Bill, would set the stage to bring Putin into the cast of characters.
(Clinton Cash...page 39)
What President Obama and Hillary Clinton had in mind was a ‘reset’. At Foggy Bottom, Hillary offered the Kremlin a chance to clean the slate and begin anew.
http://www.metalinvestmentnews.com/how-to-make-money-in-kazakhstan/.
In the heart of the ‘reset’ was what Newsweek called ‘a bevy of potential business deals’.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-wellconnected-dictato_b_67423.html.
http://www.ft.com/intl.cms/s/0/7la13774-b3e0-11e2-ace9-00144feabdc0.html#351PvNvu.
These included deals involving oil and natural gas, which are the backbone of the Russian economy. The Kremlin had their own ambitions to expand its share of the world nuclear market. Uranium, civilian nuclear power plants, and the technical services that supported them were considered a hugh growth industry for Moscow.
In 2006 the Kremlin had approved plans ‘to spend $10 billion to increase Russia’s annual uranium production by 600%.
https://secure.globeadvisor.com.newscentre/article.html?/servlet/GIS.Servlets.WireFeed Redirect?cf=sglobeadvisor/config_blank&vg=BigAd-VariableGenerator&date=2007519&archive=gam&slug=RCOVER19.
Putin considered the nuclear energy sector ‘a priority branch for the country, which makes Russia a great power’. Russia not only wanted to build nuclear plants around the world, it also wanted to control a large chunk of the global uranium market.
The Russian State Atomic Nuclear Agency (Rosatom) handles all things nuclear in Russia. Unlike the US Department of Energy or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rosatom is not just deeply imbedded with civilian nuclear power but actually6 controls the Russian nucleaar arsenal.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/18/the-wanderer-3
Becker and Van Natta, “After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton.”