(Source: Greenpeace International) Right now I am in the Russian Arctic as part of a Greenpeace factfinding mission. We are near a town called Pyt'-Yah, in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, which is surrounded by Rosneft oil fields, the largest public oil company in the world. This is the oil producing capital of Russia, a country where hydrocarbons provide 25% of the national budget, while creating terrible inflation and total dependence on oil markets. We are in the middle of a large bog covered with a slime of thick, black oil - there's no way to keep your clothes clean here. This is the hidden side of the raw-material economy, hidden from the eyes of European consumers and...
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