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Russia and Russian Business Gets a Taste of Its Own Expropriation Medicine

MOSCOW, Sept 14 (Reuters) -Norway's StatoilHydro STO.OL is looking for new business opportunities in the Russian Arctic and says the investment climate in Russia is "acceptable" for new projects, the company's country head said on Monday.

"We regard the possibilities for doing business in Russia as acceptable from StatoilHydro's point of view," Bengt Lie Hansen, president for StatoilHydro Russia, told the Reuters Russia Investment Summit.

Apparently Statoil is not too concerned about being treated unfairly.

Russia and Russian Business Gets a Taste of Its Own Expropriation Medicine

What property has russia expropriated? If paying 7bn for kovykta is expropriation then please let Shell know they have been swindled as they were ecstatic to sell the field to Gazprom. Prior to GM bankruptcy they were engaged in negotions with Gaz(Deripaska) to produce GM cars, so they must not have been worried about any depradations. Do you have anything truthful or insightful to say?

Why Russia? Pepsi, Coke Invest in Rapidly Shrinking Market

yes indeed you are smarter than Mercedes, Ford, Pepsi, Coke, boeing, Agco, microsoft, toyota, John Deere and all the other industry leaders who have multibillion investments in Russia. Truth is pop fell by .01% last year, birth rate is exploding, and the goverment is preparing a large anti-tobacco, liquor campaign. Maybe you should stop reading the opinions of political fools like Eberstdadt

BP Could Lose $20 Billion to Gazprom

As Patient has pointed out all these Western leaches have had a profitable return in Russia. Buying assets on the cheap in a country in dissarray. No longer. Russia is back on all those who took advantage of her weakness will be paying the piper.

The Russian Bear Awakens: A Global Macro View

Clearly the Anglo/American alliance is in decline and Russia is on the rise. This is actually good for the whole world as it will lead to stability and discourage military adventures. Russia resources are immense and no president in modern history has done more than Putin for his people. - A true democrat(unlike Bush and Blair). According to BP estimate Russia has about 120billion barrels in reserves. Artic and East Siberia are barely explored. Russia is becoming an industrial powerhouse - auto manufacturing, agriculture - grains/Potash, building materials and in the near future will likely add to its territory and population voluntarily - Crimea,East Ukraine and Northern Kazakhstan and Belarus. The future does indeed like bright for the Russia people and they deserve this after the inhumanities inflicted on them in the 90's by Russian politicians and neocon economists Jeffrey Sachs and Anders Aslund. In addition to all this they have their culture - immensely superior to any in the west. The only wild card is peak oil and the unstable financial system in the west.