The article discusses how the dynamics of power and influence have shifted among Russia s ultra-wealthy, commonly referred to as "oligarchs," since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. Initially considered shadow rulers with significant political influence, Putin made a deal with them, urging them to stay out of politics in exchange for safeguarding their amassed wealth.
Ukraine s natural gas consumption is expected to fall below 20 billion cubic metres (bcm) this year from about 27 billion in 2021 before the full-scale war with Russia began, the CEO of the country s biggest oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Friday.
BRUSSELS, March 29 (Reuters) - With ten rounds of sanctions since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, the European Union has rolled out its toughest punishment ever against a foreign country.
the existing ceo out of there and wanted him replaced with their own guy. why did they want that? what was their plan there? what was their interest there? well, from this deposition just released today, we get at least some explanation from ambassador marie yavanovitc hrgs right toward the very end of her long, long deposition in the impeachment inquiry. question, you mentioned earlier naf naftagaz. answer, it s the gas monopoly owned by the government of ukraine. question, has it had corruption issues in the past to your knowledge? answer, it has. you know, it has really cleaned up its act. i mean, we consider it to be one of the success stories in ukraine. that doesn t mean it s done. there are still issues going forward. question, did the cleaning up occur in conjunction with the fact that they added a supervisory board to the company? answer, i think that was important, bullet i think the most important thing was actually the head of naftogaz, a guy by the name of andre
trump administration, how much power they might even have over what the u.s. government was going to do. it s creepy. right? it s unsettling. see these guy s mugshots now, these guys under arrest. right? and, yet, they were close enough to what was going on in u.s. government that they had the president s lawyer on their payroll and they were able to say months in advance about what the fate would be of an ambassador who they were working to get ousted. well, one of the side hustles these guys appeared to be involved in, bragging about their influence in the trump administration, bragging about their closeness to president trump and his eldest son, bragging with their closeness with rudy giuliani, their advanced knowledge that that ambassador was going to get recalled from ukraine, one of the side husts in which they were playing all those cards was an effort to oust the head of the biggest gas monopoly in ukraine. lev and ig o, r wanted to get