ABSTRACT
Russian industry desperately needs substantial investment. With breathtaking speed Berezovsky, Abramovich and the others had acquired over two thirds of the Russian aluminium industry. Russia is the second largest aluminium producer in the world and aluminium is a major export. The Russian procurator general has reopened an investigation into alleged corruption at Aeroflot. Vladimir Putin has travelled the world and has an insatiable thirst for more knowledge. He has repaired fences with North Korea, Cuba and Iraq and sought to fashion a grouping with China and India to stem American hegemony. One of Putin’s jobs was to help sell the property belonging to the Soviet ministry of culture in East Berlin. Putin had a mandate to reform. In 1994, when Putin was deputy mayor, Harry Giesbrecht was involved in a project to build a hydrogen plant to supply hospitals and medical centres.
