A piece of puzzle

Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Berezovsky (left) and Roman Abramovich at the first plenary meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation.

Sensation did not happen. Boris Berezovsky’s lawsuit against Roman Abramovich, the total amount of which exceeded 5.5 billion dollars, judge Elizabeth Gloucester rejected. And now Abramovich is going to absent a compensation for legal costs from Berezovsky, which, according to observers, exceeded 150 million pounds. Many believe that this is capable of to put it mildly, to adversely affect the remnants of the financial well -being of Boris Berezovsky.

However, if this were the main consequence of the high -profile process, one could forget about the case with a slight heart the day after the announcement of the sentence. Since the price of this process is not at all limited to several billions of dollars that Berezovsky was not able to sue with Abramovich, and, of course, not a couple of hundred millions, which, perhaps, Abramovich may succeed in Berezovsky.

For Russia, tens and hundreds of billions of dollars were the price, which foreign investors and their own citizens in a panic lead from the country, these are lost opportunities to turn into a civilized country that can compete not only with Venezuela and not only in the global oil market.

Of course, to argue that the court between Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich radically changed the condition of the Russian investment climate, would be a stretch. Nevertheless, if you figure it out, the judge who considered the testimony of Abramovich more truthful and deserving than the “unconvincing” arguments of the “unreliable” witness of Berezovsky, adopted the version that the payments of Abramovich Berezovsky were not at all a transfer of the share of the profit, which was due to the co -owner of the company, but paid for the “political roof”. The last 1.3 billion dollars paid were not at all a purchase of partners' share, but a one -time payment for getting rid of this “roof”.

Thus, British justice was enriched with the term “political roof”, English - the verb “roof”, and British and all other investors received a deeper idea of ​​how business in Russia is arranged and how its relationship with the authorities are built.

Another piece of puzzle took its place in the picture, and the event that conquered in the end is perfectly joined with what happened to Yukos, once the most successful Russian company, which won the trust of a large number of foreign investors. The “Magnitsky case” and dozens of less sensational and less tragically ending “affairs” are perfectly built into the resulting picture.

The process between Berezovsky and Abramovich is unique in its own way, but its uniqueness is only that many phenomena, which have long become the practice of Russian business, were called extremely frankly in it. And it is ridiculous to think that over the past decade in the country, something has changed radically. Investors are not idiots who are ready to believe in the version of the echoes of the "dashing nineties." Especially when the fate of the former owner of one of the leading Russian developers Elena Baturina or the former head and co -owner of one of the largest Russian banks Andrei Borodin, who had lost the “political roof” in the person of Yuri Luzhkov less than two years ago, so much resembles the fate of Boris Berezovsky.

Against this background, Prime Minister Medvedev about a lack of investment in the Russian economy due to a poor external image sounds on the verge of bullying. Perhaps you can’t do without a quote. “Another topic that I propose to think about is the external image of Russia. It is necessary to evaluate what we have problems, we are talking a lot about this, nevertheless, there are problems, ”Medvedev said, speaking on Monday at a meeting of the heads of representative offices of Rossotrudnichestvo abroad. Comments, as they say, are unnecessary.