The meeting (click here) resolved to elect Viktor Zubkov as Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, was named as Deputy Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors.
Hunter Biden was one of many qualified persons to become involved with Ukraine companies. Why is that? The companies wanted to distance themselves from Russia. That is a given, but, why was Hunter Biden hired in 2014?
The picture to the above and left is the headquarters of "Gasprom" in Moscow.
The reason the investigations by Viktor Shokin were conducted was to hem in any freedoms of Burisma Holdings. Realizing Ukraine, when freed from Russia, is a strategic energy source for Europe and NATO.
The choice of Hunter Biden makes sense. He would not seek to promote corruption in Ukraine. It also made a statement to the West of Ukraine's desire to be a trading partner with Europe and the USA when possible.
Nearly 80% of the world's total proven natural gas reserves (click here) are located in ten countries. Russia tops the list, holding about a quarter of world's total gas reserves, followed by Iran and Qatar in the Middle East. Hydrocarbons-technology.com profiles the top 10 countries with the world's biggest proven gas reserves....
Russia holds the largest amount of natural gas reserves in the world. The country was estimated to possess about 1,688 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves as of January 2013, accounting for about one fourth of the world’s total proven gas reserves.
More than half of Russia’s gas reserves are located in Siberia....
There are American and NATO interests with Ukraine petroleum industry. That is what Burisma Holdings is, a Ukrainian petroleum company.
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...Scientific Research Institute (click here) “Naukanaftogas” of Naftogas of Ukraine total technically recoverable shale gas reserves in Ukraine equal to 22 trillion cubic meters, including 4.3 trillion cubic meters in eastern region, 3.4 trillion cubic meters in western region and 4.3 trillion cubic meters in southern region. According to the Head of Oil and Gas Geological Studies Center of Naukanaftogas Sergiy Vakarchuk the volumes of shale gas available for commercial extraction could be 3-4 times lower than estimated geological reserves....
Currently, some European countries receive their natural gas through pipelines from Russia. I don't really expect that to change even with Ukraine becoming another country of NATO.
The reason Western business people, including Hunter Biden, were interested in participating in the newly declared freedom of Ukraine was to move them forward into the 21st century rather than being bogged down in old-world Russian economies.
Shokin was not fired by anyone, he was voted out of power.
Former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin applied to the Supreme Administrative Court to rule illegal the order on his resignation and the order by the Verkhovna Rada, that approved the resignation. The Ukrainian News reported that reported that citing the press service of the Supreme Administrative Court.
...As it was reported, (click here) on March 29, 289 MPs voted on the dismissal of Viktor Shokin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
...As it was reported, (click here) on March 29, 289 MPs voted on the dismissal of Viktor Shokin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
63-year-old Viktor Shokin was appointed Attorney General 10 February 2015. He started his activity with the arrest of the former head of the Party of Regions Oleksandr Yefremov.
Shokin did not get along with his young deputies and reformers, David Sakvarelidze and Vitaliy Kasko. Their conflict has deepened after the arrest of Deputy Chief of Investigation Department Volodymyr Shapakin and deputy prosecutor of Kyiv region Olexander Korniyets (in the summer of 2015). Shokin has deactivated Inspection Department, which investigated the case of "diamond prosecutors" and eliminated Investigation Department of General Inspection, headed by Kasko, cancelling all his functions.
What surprises me is that Donald J. Trump chronically talks about USA interests, yet he is anxious to turn the clock back to a time when Ukraine's economic infrastructure was under attack by Shokin. The real investigation lies with the impeachment inquiry and it's findings to the facts regarding Trump's attempts to exploit the President of Ukraine in an elaborate attempt to discredit Former Vice President Biden and cast a shadow over the Democratic party.September 25, 2019
By Polina Ivanova
Kiev - A Ukrainian investigation of gas company Burisma (click here) is focused solely on activity that took place before Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, was hired to sit on its board, Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigation agency said....
...The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said an investigation was ongoing into permits granted by officials at the Ministry of Ecology for the use of natural resources to a string of companies managed by Burisma.
But it said the period under investigation was 2010-2012, and noted that this was before the company hired Hunter Biden.
“Changes to the board of Burisma Limited, which are currently the object of international attention, took place only in May 2014, and therefore are not and never were the subject of (the anti-corruption bureau’s) investigation,” the bureau’s statement said.
Hunter Biden was a director on Burisma’s board from 2014-2018, according to documents filed by the company in Cyprus, where it is registered.
The investigation into Burisma covers a period when Ukraine was governed by a Kremlin ally, Viktor Yanukovich. Burisma hired Hunter Biden after Yanukovich was toppled in a popular revolt in 2014 and replaced by a pro-Western government.
At the time, many Ukrainian firms were seeking to distance themselves from their relationships with the previous, pro-Moscow authorities, and some invited Western public figures to sit on their boards.
The NABU’s investigation related to the 2010-2012 period is not particularly active, Kholodnytsky added....
