The Russian Federation will be in a deep hole. As Putin destroyed his own energy weapons - the interview of HB

But the Kremlin uses its energy resources as a political weapon, and cuts the branch on which it sits - after the introduction of an embargo on oil from the Russian Federation and voluntary reduction of the EU consumption of natural gas, economic shocks will begin in Russia. The NV spoke with Mikhail Krutikhin, a partner of the Russian consulting company Rusergy, who has been exploring the world oil and gas industry for three decades.

Video of the Day - Let's start with the Friendship Oil Puppies, one of the branches of which goes by Ukraine. Russian Transnafta did not pay the Ukrainian side for transit, pumping oil for a while stopped, but then recovered - the Hungarians and Slovaks paid for transit instead of Russians. How did this gas pipe with such a symbolic name appear? - The first stage of friendship opened in 1964, and the second - in 1974.

And then it was all under the sign of friendship, since the purpose of this oil pipeline was to provide the countries of "people's democracy", which were then called socialist countries. It is a camp that was under the control of the Soviet Union. And it was necessary to support pro -Soviet regimes. And secondly, it was necessary to pay somehow for the goods they supplied to the USSR, which were not produced in the Union.

Therefore, they were not just political, but economic justifications to build such a pipe. And they were not built in cooperation with the Western countries, but even in the opposition, because at one of the stages personally, the German federal Chancellor Conrad Adenauer intervened and forbidden to supply the pipes of the right quality to the Soviet Union for this project. And at the Chelyabinsk factory urgently set up the production of the necessary pipes and were released as follows.

It is part of the Commonwealth that existed under the slogans of the Warsaw Treaty and the Socialist Camp. We also forget that a product pipeline that went from Samara to Hungary must be added to friendship. It supplied diesel for Soviet troops transported to the Warsaw Pact. So it was not quite a political but economic goal. And it was reached then. - Instead, they supplied Czechoslovak shoes? - Not just shoes. There were many goods that were not in the Soviet Union.