contemplativeКак это ни
странно кажется сегодня, но были времена когда "демократическая общественность"
и "свободная пресса" пела совсем другие песни про Ходора. Наверное,
до того как "Открытая Россия" стала рассовывать десятки миллионов на
проплаты Менатеповской пропаганды (http://english.intelligent.ru/articles/text_e0038.htm )
.
В качестве
примера приведу только две статьи: из Financial Times времён конца 1998,
сравнивая соседей - Юкос и Сургут. Сравнение очень не лестное для Юкоса -
мизерные зарплаты с большими задержками, запустение социальной сферы
Financial Times
Arkady Ostrovsky visits the Siberian oil towns of
Across the
river in Nefteyugansk, people rail against a slick Muscovite banking tycoon
dressed in a Marlboro Classics shirt who bought their company, Yuganskneftegas,
and milked it for profit, impoverishing the town in the process. Queuing
recently outside a bank for their wages, which they had not received in full
for three months, Nefteyugansk workers complained bitterly about Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, one of the new class of bankers, the so-called
"oligarchs". Some counted themselves lucky to receive Rbs200 ($12.50)
- or 10 per cent of the wages due three months earlier.
Alevtina
Kosareva, 43, says she has been forced to exchange her sewing machine for
vegetables. "He [Khodorkovsky] keeps us on a drip-feed so we do not starve
and continue to work for him. Khodorkovsky simply laughs at us. He does not
even think we are people . . . In the past, masters fed their slaves, but the
new masters do not bother." In the past two years Yukos - the loss-making
oil company that owns 51 per cent of voting shares in Yuganskneftegas - has
reduced wages by 30 per cent, cut its drilling programme, and laid off about
15,000 people, reducing the workforce to 39,000. It has transferred the old
Soviet social responsibilities to the municipal budget, in line with advice
from western consultants.
… "We
have no sugar, no rice. God knows what we are going to eat in winter. There is
no master in this town. We have the same resources as
Surgut's
comparative prosperity is partly due to the president of Surgutneftegas,
Vladimir Bogdanov, who until recently was criticised as an old-style Soviet-era
manager with xenophobic views. But his hands-on style management has paid off.
Contrary to the advice of some western consultants, Mr Bogdanov continues to
pay for schools and accommodation for his staff. In return he gets the loyalty
of his workers, who have more faith in their management than in the central
government.
А так же из Новой Газеты,
примерно того же времени - о том как Ходорковский воровато-из-бюджето:
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