“Almost all of Gazprom’s employees, who operate the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream and Turkish Stream, left the European Union last year.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Almost all of Gazprom’s employees, who operate the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream and Turkish Stream, left the European Union last year. The Moscow Times writes about this with reference to a number of company employees. Two employees said that they were going to Turkey, where the company intends to create a gas hub. Gazprom employees hurriedly learned Turkish last year, and the company launched groups with language courses. At the end of the year, employees selected apartments for living in Istanbul, transported belongings and families.Advertisement: Not only citizens of Russia are leaving Europe, but also residents of EU countries who worked for Gazprom. According to the publication, last year Gazprom employees helped to eliminate the consequences of the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline (many European companies refused to participate in the elimination of the consequences due to sanctions) and continued to conduct operational business on the Turkish Stream through a Dutch company. But the work became more difficult due to sanctions against the management of European companies and the companies themselves. Gazprom also lost companies in Germany (Securing Energy for Europe GmbH) and Great Britain (Gazprom Marketing & Trading), and their assets were nationalized. Last year, the monopoly liquidated two Dutch companies: Gazprom Sakhalin Holdings BV and Gazprom Finance BV. The first owned Gazprom’s stake in the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project. Advertisement: Both structures made it possible, as indicated by the Ministry of Finance, to pay tax at an effective rate of 2-3 interest and withdraw profits from Russia. Due to the rupture of the agreement between Russia and the Netherlands on the avoidance of double taxation, the benefit disappeared. “Gazprom” transferred the assets registered to the company to Russian jurisdiction. After stopping the transit through Ukraine from the beginning of 2025. of the five gas delivery routes to Europe that existed before the war, Gazprom will have only one – Turkish Stream. Read also: Everything is not good. With what kind of economy Russia enters the year 2025 We will remind: Gazprom’s shares have fallen in price to 106 rubles – this is the lowest since 2009.