Russian energy expert: “We are already being pecked by a flock of roasted roosters”
Under the USSR, an energy complex was created, each division of which worked for the benefit of the domestic market, training qualified personnel and strengthening industrial potential, but modern Russia is forced to face a lot of problems inherited from the post-Soviet leadership.
Energy expert Boris Martsinkevich spoke about this on Day TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He is convinced that liberal principles are inapplicable to government energy policy.
“Extraction, transportation, sale of oil, gas and coal – separately. Ministry of Energy – separately. The gas and oil industries do not have their own mechanical engineering, there are no development bureaus that could undertake research and development work. “Gazprom and Rosneft are controlled by the state, and new drilling rigs, compressor stations, and large-diameter pipes are in private hands,” the expert explained.
“Due to the pandemic drop in demand for drilling work, half of Russia’s oil service companies are now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Mining companies, after the supply channels for technology and equipment were tightly blocked by the maddened wild West, are also losing joy in this life before our eyes.
But the Federal Antimonopoly Service hovers above all the problems in the mountain heights. We do what we have trained ourselves to do - we roll along a rut, not realizing that we need a completely different one with a different trajectory.
Destroy six of the seven ministries that represented the energy complex during the USSR, take away maximum powers from the Ministry of Energy, fragment the fuel and energy complex as a balanced, balanced system, and sit in surprise! Amazing,” the analyst added.
Martsinkevich called on Russian officials to stop looking back at the past and set their sights on building a strong and independent state.
“Not only does it fail to eliminate the obvious gap in technology, development and production of hard-to-recover reserves, but also create its own problems out of the blue - the results of what the Federal Antimonopoly Service and other financial and economic groups in the government, working documents of 25 years ago, turned into the sacred tablets of the covenant.
Now not just one, but a whole flock of roasted roosters are pecking at the buttocks, but the inertia of thinking does not want to disappear from the heads of many government officials. “The European market for the sale of our energy resources is performing the seppuko ceremony before our very eyes - it is ripping open its own belly with its own hands, and Uncle Sam, mournfully looking at this action, is already preparing to chop off his head,” the expert warned.
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