Not oil, so an atom

Cheap oil, international sanctions, the Crimea, military campaigns in the Donbass and Syria - not a complete list of the causes of the crisis of the Russian economy. Bankers and oilmen line up to the state feeder, but even there it is saved only by the “fat” accumulated over the past years. Even the gold reserve they say, enough for only twenty years. All hope for Gazprom, gunsmiths and nuclear scientists - the monopoly-state heritage of the Soviet era.

Head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko report backl Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the success of the state corporation: “Over the past few years, we have increased our order book by 5,5. Today we have 30 units of nuclear power plants in 12 countries in the order book, and even more 10 are being negotiated ... Now it turns out that the order book is full - more than $ 300 billion. ” True, at the Atomexpo-2015 industry exhibition held in June of this year, Rosatom stated that by the year 2020 a ten-year order book could reach 150 billion dollars, i.e. the figure was half that. This year it is planned to conclude contracts for 13 billions of dollars.Statedthat Russia is “practically the only country that proposes to create whole nuclear industries in different regions of the world from scratch.” The main customers of the state corporation for the construction of power units are developing countries (Malaysia, Bolivia, Kenya, Ghana, Indonesia), but not only. Rosatom owns property around the world, including in Washington. USA remain Rosatom's longtime and unalienable partner, regardless of the sanctions: Russia provides uranium fuel for about 20% of the needs of US nuclear power plants, recently contracts were signed totaling about 6 billions of dollars.

The policy of international sanctions, however, makes adjustments to the cooperation. how said on its official website Rosatom, in March 2014, the US State Department notified of the suspension of work in some programs. Also, “on the initiative of the American side, in May 2014, the formation of a work plan between the US national laboratories and the enterprises of the nuclear industry of Russia was suspended”. On the other hand, the American media сообщилиthat Russia unilaterally refused from long-term cooperation with the United States in ensuring the safety and physical protection of nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.

The cooperation of Russian atomic lobbyists with Americans is periodically overshadowed by scandals. In the spring of this year, the media suspected that investors associated with Rosatom donated tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton family charity fund at the time when Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State was involved in the approval of the transaction for the purchase of Uranium One related to uranium mining in Kazakhstan.
Most recently, ended a seven-year anti-corruption investigation by the American prosecutor's office, which resulted in Vadim Mikerin, director of the US branch of Rosatom, Techsnabexport, pleaded guilty to rollbacks to American suppliers and money laundering.

Enough of corruption scandals and at home: criminal casesAbout against the top managers of the Siberian Chemical Combine in Tomsk (part of Rosatom), the theft of FSUE Atomflot and many others. For 2010 year on suspicion of corruption and abuse of power deprived of their postsь 35 managers of different levels, in 2011 - still 12. In 2011, Transparency International Russiapresented Report on the results of the verification of the corruption component in the activities of Rosatom - from 200 of the contracts examined in the report, 83 revealed violations, and this is only based on an analysis of open sources. In the traditional Russian style business empire is built The permanent head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko - former partners, friends and son showed entrepreneurial activity in the cities and industries with which the career of the head of the clan was connected.

Reporting on successful export activities and multi-billion dollar revenues of the state corporation, Kiriyenko is simultaneously lobbying for a draft of a new program on Russia's nuclear and radiation safety for the 2016-2025 years. Her Realization of assumes the development of 400 billion rubles, 280 of which will be budget. How much of this money will be stolen in the corruption reality of Russia is still unknown, as well as how much of the foreign assets and Rosatom's estimated incomes are unknown. will get former shareholders of Yukos in the framework of the execution of the decision of the Hague arbitration. Taking into account the colossal environmental risks that permanently pursue the nuclear industry, the government revenue predicted by Mr. Kiriyenko is not at all obvious.