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I got a bit lucky ElCid... I sold a pretty good chunk of Gazprom holding company Vostok Gas at the peak of $97 a share over a month ago, first time I took profits in Vostok since first buying at about $12 - $14 a share (and cashed in a spinoff that got my basis to $0) a few years ago... still haven't bought those shares back yet ($65 today) but I will. That's not too bad, is it? Basis $0, sale $97?

Don't let the western Media fool you. Medvedev is no puppet, and Putin is no puppeteer. As to Abramavich, I have a pretty good idea why he hasn't been prosecuted, and it isn't why you think... and he's not exactly friends with Putin, that's a myth.

Russia for most Westerners is a fog... and the would be Rulers of Russia (not Putin, his enemies) want it that way.

Move Over Exxon-Mobil, Here Comes Gazprom

Just so anybody who doesn't know, Khodorkovsky and his Menatep/Yukos partners were thieves and liars and killers... check the historical record. Nevzlin, Lebedev, Khodorkovsky, et al were nothing but Rothschild sharks working in Russia to steal state assets by any means possible. Nevzlin fled the country, Khodorkovsky wasn't quite as slippery.

Move Over Exxon-Mobil, Here Comes Gazprom

Kathi, my condolences on your mother's passing...

Glad you didn't get trapped investing in Khodorkovsky's theivery. Didn't remember ever seeing RB Russian ADR's until after the Yukos scammers were already in hot water... but thanks for whatever posts of yours I did see, I was rooting you on for your timely investments.

Mechel Trouble Spells Buying Opportunity for Gazprom

"Hostile takeover" ... ???

What are you smokin', J-Cris?

Mechel was engaged in tax evasion by using transfer pricing!

Putin simply told Mechel that the Feds were on to the scheme, and the head of Mechel chickened out of a planned meeting to address the end effect of such business tactic! Now you mischaracterize Putin's response???

Can't any of you just ONCE tell the truth about Russia?

It's about ENFORCING THE LAWS!

It's about Justice...

'Sic Semper Tyrannis'

This is what the righteous Russian government is doing to those who steal huge from the people. Justice.

Sic semper tyrannis... in the USA it was an expression of righteous justice, well executed. So now, when the "Russians" defend their country from thieving oligarchic tyrants, only an imbecile or a paid stooge would object here in the west...

Sic all right... Sick of all the propaganda against those who defend their country from thieves and criminals.

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I was waiting for the first oligarch-hired stooge or dimwit western bozo to mention "Yukos"... so here you go, Yu-ko-bo-zo

Go do your homework... Yugansk Oil company (Key piece that Yukos was formed around) was stolen in rigged bids from the Russian people, by criminals, that have since been convicted, and imprisoned. Yukos management cheated on their taxes HUGE, and was caught... you want more detail go do your DD, dodo.

Intelligent persons, like myself, did DD in advance and invested in reputable tax-paying firms like Lukoil and Gazprom... LONG AGO. Did NOT buy even a share of Yukos, because it was plain that the "owners" were obviously not to be trusted. It's actually amazing that the authorities took as long as they did to deal with those bandits.

As to the clown that states everyone is better off after 100 (91+) years, obviously you think strictly arithmatically and not in any relative sense, and then try to use that as an argument out of sync with context. And you actually are so stupid that you think I am defending oligarchs? Go away and learn to think Objectively.

Can Gazprom Realistically Meet Its Natural Gas Projections?

Mr. Kirk does an admirable job with an overall analysis of Gazprom...

The real issue, if you are a Gazprom stockholder, is that the stock has been artificially suppressed for quite some time. Reports like the IEA piece shown above is intentionally made for this purpose, I might add. Gazprom meanwhile is under slow accumulation by these same suppressor-instigators... who all the while have been attempting to engineer a Political disruption within Russia's Political-Economic-Def... space that will allow these same elements to snatch up the pieces of a broken Gazprom. Why? So as to leverage them out again for windfall profit to the Western holders and creators of trillions of nearly worthless USFED paper and associated created in an eyeblink electronic blips, so as to pull off a bloodless resource grab dwarfing "Operation Snatch Iraq".

Doubt it?

Stay tuned.

Move Over Exxon-Mobil, Here Comes Gazprom

Poor Ryan the bozo stock tout... writes and has no idea... and is too afraid to respond to the bet too...

Miller at Gazprom has always talked about crossing the 1 Trillion USD mark. You trying now to use the grammatical term of plural is a joke.

1.001 trillion is still "greater than a trillion".

1.001 trillion is still "in the Trillions".

You clearly have no clue by trying now to wiggle your way into meaning "2 Trillion +" now...

Go back to school.

Move Over Exxon-Mobil, Here Comes Gazprom

Kathi, why do you no longer post on Russian ADR's?

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"...if you still find Russia alluring" ???

What an overall Absurd Analysis... but why should we be surprised?

Russia haters spout forever their nonsense, and we get such a healthy dose of it in the MSM... but it's no excuse for a book-talking stock tout to recycle it and dress it up as financial advice.

Try these facts on for size, from someone who knows better:

1. The Russian people are better off now than at any time in 91 years plus. Doubt it? Buy a plane ticket to Domodedevo and ask the first 100 people you run into...

2. Foreign and Domestic investors in Russian companies are better protected from criminal activity by managements and governments than anywhere else in the world... and if you think I'm kidding I've got just a few words for you... Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Royal Dutch Shell, GM, Bear Stearns, and the whole bunch of stinking banksters that sold CDO's throughout the world and stole trillions from lied-to buyers.

3. Russia government has less in common today with the USSR than the USA today does to the old USSR, and that is an insult to the old USSR.

4. Russia's currency and financial and fiscal structure is sound... the dollar and the unfunded US debt and liabilities? Give me a break...

Go back to school Mr. Hutchinson.

Move Over Exxon-Mobil, Here Comes Gazprom

Gazprom will cross the Trillion Market Cap point long before 2017. Bet you a 1000 cubic metres worth of Gazprom blue that it happens before 2012.

Gazprom Eyes a Trillion Dollar Capitalization

Russia's energy policy is rational and logical... to wit, the most efficient and socially beneficial extraction and use of it's varied resources, in a timely way, with fair and orderly transition from the ridiculous policy of ruinous exploitation and export for Swiss bank cash by the oligarchic thieves of ex-Soviet assets, into a market based system that properly rewards stakeholders, while protecting Russian citizens as much as possible. Looks to me as though Putin and his team obviously care about Russian people, present and future, and environment as well... without overtaxing capital or being destructive to any rights.

Oh yeah... he hasn't invaded any countries to steal their resources, either.

I'd like to say at least that meanwhile the USA has had no energy policy at all since 1979, but the actions of the DC warmongers in the middle east, especially since GB the First went active, disproves that... in a very negative way. Thank your lucky stars you weren't born there... what a nightmare for all those poor victims of the 60 years of US-sanctified (48-90) and led (91-08) aggression since WW2.

And before that fan of Khodorkovsky and Statoil above starts spurting about outrageous taxes in Russia, he should perhaps check to see Norways marginal tax rate on it's oil companies... it's about 80%. You see, I owned NHY and STO in the past, too. Not any more...

Gazprom Eyes a Trillion Dollar Capitalization

Sorry to rain on your bluster there, 'bearfund', but the only thing asinine is your uninformed commentary.

First off, Gazprom is a commercial entity far more (like 100 to 0) than it is a 'weapon' of a group of 'Putin's dogs'. If you don't realize this you are either a spreader of propaganda or a victim of the same. As to you using the term 'Putin's dogs', I would say that just increases the likelihood that you are a spreader rather than a victim.

As to BP investors, I am one. I know all about TNK/BP in detail... do you? If BP had not gone into Russia, it would be worse off... it's current TNK issues are being sorted out properly, the oligarchs who sold their half share to BP are being sued by BP to pay the back taxes due before the deal, as the contract of purchase called for... read the facts please. BP is in talks with gazprom on added joint ventures... why? Because it's GOOD FOR BP.

The oligarchs are the problem, not Putin, the Kremlin, or any other boogeyman that your boss Khodorkovsky tries to scare up. Go back now and get more instructions.

As for 'appropriation', get real. Try being factual... not a fearmonger.

As to risks to OGZPY as a stock... Gazprom is under no risk any greater than the likelihood that suddenly natgas will be obsolete... and unless fusion suddenly becomes something other than '50 years away', gas will become THE #1 PREFERRED ENERGY SOURCE in the near future. In less than a decade half of European vehicles will be hybrid turbo-diesels and the other half CNG fueled. Guess who'll sell the CNG.

Try being objective. You'll make a profit for your children. And you won't be a agit-prop puppet for the bad guys.