Nationalization certainly seems to appeal to the powerful faction comprising Putin’s former KGB colleagues and associates from his native St. Petersburg, one of whom last year became the chairman of Rosneft, the wholly state-owned oil company which acquired Yuganskneftegaz.
La nationalisation est tentante pour la puissante faction composée des anciens collègues du KGB de Vladimir Poutine, et de ses associés de sa ville natale de Saint-Petersbourg, dont un a pris la tête l’année dernière de Rosneft, la compagnie pétrolière publique qui a acquis Yuganskneftegaz.