Most recently, the Russian edition “Fontanka” I published an article entitled “Bit in the Syrian war business”, which caused a great resonance among experts of Naftogaz, says President of the Academy of Realpolitik, Vladimir Prokhvatilov online “The essence of the events”.
The article is a journalistic investigation, which the author suggests, what “a quarter of all gas and oil, produced at the reclaimed area for Assad, can get to the company, related “Kremlin chef” Eugene Prigogine“.
It is widely known that the nickname Petersburg millionaire means, he owns a catering business and, rumored, It is on friendly terms with top officials of the Russian Federation.
(English. catering от cater — “cater”) - Food industry, related to the provision of services to remote locations, including all of the enterprise and service, contractors providing catering services for employees of companies and individuals in both indoor and outdoor service, as well as carrying out maintenance activities for different purposes, and the retail sale of finished culinary products.
In practice, under the catering is meant not only food preparation and delivery, but also service, laying, table decoration, spill and serve guests drinks and similar services.
edition “business Petersburg” in his “Ranking of billionaires - 2016” Eugene Prigogine put on 106th, estimated his fortune at 7,14 billion rubles. AT 2016 Prigogine year included the publication “city 812” the list 30 most influential people in St. Petersburg.
Citing on the website of the Russian Ministry of Energy “Fontanka” reports, that during his visit to Russia in December last year, the Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ghanem signed an agreement on the participation of a number of large Russian companies in exploration projects and production of oil and gas on the territory of the Arab Republic with an emphasis on ensuring the safety of their activities there”.
The publication writes, what “results of the meeting is unprecedented and is not so much energy, how many military-political issues. Prisoners Agreement return practice times Francis Drake and Cecil Rhodes”.
According to information “Fontanka”, During the visit, the Syrian minister signed a memorandum with a recently registered company “euro Polis”:
“The content of the memorandum to within the meaning of: Ltd “euro Polis” undertakes to liberate the captured opponents of the regime oil and gas fields, refineries, other oil and gas infrastructure, and then protect them. The share of LLC “euro Polis” in oil and gas - a quarter of, the cost of fighting - moreover, reimbursed separately. Validity of the memorandum - 5 years”.
“Fontanka” further writes, company “Europolis” associated with the so-called commander “a private military company Wagner” Dmitri Utkin. Since PMC Wagner as a legal entity is not registered anywhere (and the law in general can not be registered, and its existence is known only from the media publications, in particular, Same “Fontanka”), the “euro Polis” – “Russian commercial company - apparently, will assume the obligation to conduct military operations on the territory of another country in the interests of local governments and public corporations”.
Based on the results of its investigation, The publication claims, company “Europolis” It may be associated with Eugene Prigozhin, a “people from the security service Prigogine close contact with the management of PMC Wagner”.
In this way, if the results of the investigation “Fontanka” untrue, the small Russian company to produce oil in the liberated territories of the jihadists, and release them on their own will also be.
The publication asked to rate “economic sense” This "project" well-known oil and gas analyst Michael Krutikhin, who said,, what, “not knowing, what specific fields and factories can get under the agreement, to forecast earnings will not work”:
“From a practical point of view, the big doubt is the possibility of organization of export conditions in Syria. How will the delivery? The machine is not manure. Well, and without knowing the production volumes, more or less impossible to conduct accurate analysis”.
Making your own calculation, edition concluded, what “monthly benefit from the Syrian war is unlikely to be more than 100 millions of US dollars”.
If consider, that car based on fuel truck “Ural” seats 12 thousands of liters of fuel, and in one barrel of oil 160 liters, it turns out, that for the transport of all Syrian oil produced daily need little more than a hundred tank trucks. So maybe Michael rights Krutikhin, what “machines without manure”?
It seems, it is not so. It does not even have to deliver fuel tankers hundred Syrian express (although, why not?), they can be purchased from any regional allies, wholesale or retail. If you recall the video – and photo- materials are not so distant past, it is transported by road (and the transported) all kinds of oil extracted by militants in Syria, and Iraq.
by the way, hardly need even hundreds of fuel tankers. After all, not all the Syrian oil given (by assumption “Fontanka”) Russian Francis Drake!
by the way, major oil and gas regions of Syria - is Palmyra. This is the strategic importance of the area.
If we assess the situation from the military point of view, it is worth recalling the proclamation of Napoleon to his army:
“soldiers, you dressed, you are bad fed ... I want to lead you to the most fertile country in the world”.
The meaning of these words: the army itself should feed themselves. It is well-known maxim of the great commander, which is now just adopted a, if “Fontanka” the rights, Russian strategists Syrian war. In an ever-shrinking budget contain several thousand “ihtamnetov”, fighting in the Syrian sands, It becomes very expensive. Therefore, the transition to Napoleon's methods of conducting the colonial war, when the army is feeding itself, dealing fairly reasonable. Not a secret, that militants LIH (banned in Russia) earning hundreds of millions of dollars from oil sales, produced the most primitive means and delivered to the buyer in tankers.
In this way, the essence of the memorandum - to overcome business from LIH (banned in Russia).
In the Russian practice a tradition for many years, when members of the "inner circle" of businessmen receive preference Business, and instead perform confidential instructions "upper chiefs", which can not be realized in any other way.
So in this situation was found, in my opinion, the only way to reduce, if not zero out the cost of waging war in Syria.
In comments oil and gas experts write in facebook, that Syria sent as the representative of the people of another “inner circle”, Gennady Timchenko, “organize the production of phosphate rock”.
The hypothetical income from the production and sale of Syrian oil is too high, to afford to put it in his pocket a small Russian company owners. But it would be enough, to pay “work” (as it is now customary to say) mercenaries from Legion “Turan”, which the, according to media reports, formed of the fighters of the CIS countries.
Why are all these innovations are not implemented openly, hard to say. Even more difficult to understand, that out of this will come. Is the fighting in Syria “ihtamnety” will go, so to speak, of hozraschet, or to repeat history with the construction of Spaceport “Oriental” and St. petersburg “Zenith Arena”, The future will show.
I can not exclude, that overstate the strategic horizon of Russian rulers and underestimate the greed of businessmen “inner circle”. In this case, Alas, fed would not the army, a “inner circle”.
