BP intends to buy a share of Russian partners

This week, BP will turn to the Russian government for permission to buy a share of Russian partners TNK-BP, independently or together with Rosneft, Reuters reported with reference to the publication in the Financial Times.

On Friday, the Stockholm court confirmed its decision to ban the transaction between Rosneft and BP, against which Russian shareholders of TNK -BR - Consortium Aar.

The British oil and gas company should pay attention to the warning of Vladimir Putin that in Russia not everything is subject to the Kremlin, comments on the situation of The Wall Street Journal .

In January, when Putin supported the agreement and congratulated the companies on the conclusion of the agreement, he also expressed a warning: it is too easy to assume that the Kremlin controls everything in Russia, the newspaper was told by sources familiar with the situation. His words turned out to be a prediction, the newspaper writes, based on observation of the development of events related to the transaction.

The Wall Street Journal calls the leadership of the Aar consortium (Mikhail Friedman, Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik) by oligarchs and emphasizes that the discontent of business representatives was satisfied, despite the approval of the transaction by the authorities, undermines the generally accepted opinion that Russia is a country where the almighty is dominated Bureaucrats who prevailed over the business.

The deal was under the leadership of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and the head of the board of directors of Rosneft Igor Sechin and was publicly approved by Putin. However, when the oligarchs expressed dissatisfaction with the transaction, the Kremlin did not object to them.

Sources close to Aar told the publication that every step against the BP and Rosneft agreement was discussed with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. "They said that if your rights are violated, you must protect them," said a source close to Russian shareholders.

Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov admitted that Putin discussed with Aar plans to confront the deal with Aar co-owner Mikhail Friedman in January. However, "the government does not have rights or the intention to intervene," Peskov emphasized.