All the hypocrisies about the meeting between Putin and Italian companies
Putin-Italian companies meeting. Facts, names and hypocrisies. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
Despite the very serious crisis that currently exists between Ukraine and Russia, according to sources obtained by the Financial Times on January 25, the Kremlin had predicted and confirmed that an online conference would be held between Moscow and some authoritative managers of Italian multinationals. then in fact implemented and organized by both the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce and the Italian-Russian entrepreneurial committee ( here the in-depth analysis of Start Magazine ).
As far as the Russian side is concerned, of course, the representatives of Rosneft could not be missing, with Igor Sechin, one of Putin's closest allies, and Kirill Dmitriev, president of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
All this should not cause any surprise, given that there are excellent commercial relations between Italy and Russia that cannot be interrupted overnight.
These relations certainly do not contribute to increasing political tensions but if anything they can help to dampen their most devastating effects and, precisely through this bilateral relationship, Italy could play a very important role as an intermediary to avoid an armed conflict that could have absolutely unpredictable consequences. .
On the other hand, American companies themselves have always built profitable relationships with their Russian partners as evidenced by the fact that some US companies are asking the White House to be cautious in relation to possible economic sanctions. Among these companies there would be two large American multinationals, namely Chevron and General Electric.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/incontro-russia-aziende-italiane-cremlino/ on Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:31:05 +0000.