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Some random occurrences and incidents tell a different story.
I guess they sweat quite a lot to keep business as usual.Like this one:
- Gazprom cancels dividend for the first time since 1998
- Stock tumbles 30%
- Insider trading yada yada
- Gazprom change their mind and decide to pay dividend
- Stock rises by 40%
Or this one:
Ravil Maganov, Chairman of the Board of Lukoil, Russia’s 2nd-largest company & one of the world’s largest oil producers, has died after falling out of a window in Moscow - Gazprom cancels dividend for the first time since 1998
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Dangerous times to be a Russian energy boss! From BBC
Several Russian energy oligarchs have died in unusual circumstances in recent months:
The body of millionaire Novatek former manager Sergei Protosenya was found alongside his wife and daughter at a Spanish villa in April
A former vice-president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead with his wife and daughter in their Moscow flat, also in April
In May, a former Lukoil tycoon Alexander Subbotin died of heart failure, reportedly after seeking alternative treatment from a shaman.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AiEMUAVd-PMJ:https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/08/23/why-the-russian-economy-keeps-beating-expectations&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk