Russia tries to raise oil prices – expert

Russia is trying to influence oil prices in the world to artificially stimulate their growth. On Sunday, July 27, in the air channel on television Espresso The President of the Center for Globalist said Approach xx Mikhail Gonchar.

The oil market is currently ongoing low price indicators. Despite this, Russia is actively striving to change the situation, trying to create a desirable condition for rising prices. Its actions are a direct consequence of economic interests in the energy sector.

“Go (Russia. – Ed.) With a few specific small steps, let’s say. Moreover, disguised, at first glance, for absolute other purposes. Well, I mean, first of all, what is connected to some disturbance after Putin’s command in some steps to verify the federal security service of all the vehicles, especially the tanks entering the Russian ports, released on July 21. Formally, this is the fact that in six months later, five tanks carrying Russian oil have become victims of Russia Where they were broken, they lost the move. “

Mikhail Gonchar has confirmed that rising oil costs has not been noticed. In his opinion, the trend of price cuts has been ongoing since mid-January, although there are short-term jumps, for example, in June due to tension between Iran and Israel.

The expert noted that previous high -profile forecasts about a rapid increase of prices at a level of 100 or even $ 350 were not justified. He emphasized that narrow narrows were not blocked, and the tanker war did not happen, so the expected situations remained in the stage of hypotheses.

Keep in mind that foreign oil tanks are temporarily not allowed to load to Russia’s main black sea ports due to new policies.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian Federation could lose $ 19 billion income due to a new ceiling of oil prices. The new European Union penalties, which include a flexible ceiling of prices for Russian oil, can remove Russian budget of every fifth ruble of planned oil and gas income.