Chubais discussed with Putin the situation in the energy sector and the plan of restructuring RAO UES

Anatoly Chubais spent today with Vladimir Putin "a detailed, thorough conversation about the situation in the energy in general, about long -term tasks in the development of this area." According to the head of the RAO UES, it was about attracting resources, introducing new equipment, so that "in 5-6 years we would not be at a broken trough." As Chubayk said, all world experience indicates that "liberalization of the energy market ultimately leads to a decrease in prices", however, in order for this to happen, "we need radical transformations." The concept of necessary transformations is already represented by the Board of Directors of the RAO. However, real actions to attract investments, Chubais noted, are possible no earlier than spring-summer of next year. The conversation between Chubais and the president was so important that they decided to continue after Putin’s meeting with the US Minister of Defense William Cohen.

Thus, a new move has been made in the intrigue that began last week around the reform of the RAO UES and the figure of its chapter. At the end of last week, the media, close to the Berezov -Voloshinsky group, announced a complete defeat of the Chubais plan and his likely resignation, and Dorenko spoke about her as a decision, and even called specific deadlines - July. In the program of Kiselev, “Results” the leader of the Duma faction of the ATP of Nemtsov, on the contrary, emphasized that Chubais acts in this conflict from liberal-state positions and tried to tear out the words of support from the lips of Grigory Yavlinsky, with whom he discussed the prospects for the unification of the ATP and “Yabloko”. The leader of the "Yabloko", somewhat vaguely and warily discussing the unification, remained adamantly silent in this matter.