Posted on 04/23/2018 1:38:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Workers at one of Russia's biggest aluminium smelters say their Siberian town is doomed unless Moscow mitigates U.S. sanctions against aluminium giant Rusal, a predicament mirrored across the company's sprawling operations.
Trapped by mortgages for apartments built on barren steppe under communism, residents of Sayanogorsk, one of a string of towns dominated by Rusal, have few options if a loss of customers for its aluminium leads the firm to cut jobs.
"The entire life of this city depends on Rusal," said Evgeny Ivanov, until recently a foreman at the plant in Sayanogorsk, where pockmarked asphalt recalls the harsh winters endured by its 60,000 inhabitants, and icy blue mountains line the horizon.
"If something were to happen to the factory, in my opinion the town would die out. There would be nothing left for people to do here," he said in one of the town's few cafes, explaining that the private firm he now works at also depends on the plant.
The Kremlin has said it is considering various ways to help Rusal after Washington blacklisted the company and its billionaire major shareholder Oleg Deripaska for suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other alleged "malign activity".
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Average Russian is suffering due to Putin.
The question is, what is the alternative to Putin?
No guarantee that it wouldn’t be even worse.
“If something were to happen to the factory, in my opinion the town would die out. There would be nothing left for people to do here,”
Fine with me! Get rid of Pooty Poot and we’ll talk! Russia has been a $hit country for every one of my nearly 78 years. You can’t convince me it’s not a genetic problem.
The vikings usually took slaves but in Russia there were no people so they did a lot of inbreeding.
Rusal is going to become a unitary state enterprise...
True...and as we know there’s not many good ones. At one time, after the Soviet collapse, there was a slight chance for a good relationship.
I met several Russian biz types in Dubai, Bahrain and other places...all seemed to want good relations between the countries. All that is gone now. Maybe in a few generations
The vikings usually took slaves ..
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Which they sold to the muslims for gold and silver.
russian middle class has prospered nicely over last 15 years.
fact
Fact ...Russian youth are leaving because of zero opportunities. Nice try Boris.
rod,
rather obvious from your posts that you have some bizarre obsession with Russia. FYI - the cold war ended 28 years ago.
we won. we really won; honesty
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