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A strange one just to have in your back pocket..

 

Russia: Hunter Biden Appointment to Ukrainian Company Board Seen As 'Typical' US 'Colonial Practice'

CEL2014051437461310 Moscow Izvestiya Online <https://www.opensource.gov/wiki/display/nmp/Izvestiya+Online>  in Russian 14 May 14

[Report by Mariya Amirdzhanyan: "Biden's Ukraine Appointment Is Colonial Practice. The US Vice President's Son Has Joined the Order of Directors of the Ukrainian Oil and Gas Company Burisma"]

US Vice President Joe Biden's son -- Hunter Biden -- has become an independent director of the privately owned Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings. Hunter Biden will handle the development of international cooperation, be in charge of legal matters, and advise the company on issues relating to business transparency and corporate governance. This is stated by company documents. Experts are describing this appointment as a typical manifestation of US foreign policy in countries that it controls.

Apart from his new job at Burisma, Biden is also an adviser to the American legal firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. Biden is also founder and managing director of Rosemont Seneca Partners. Another founder and managing director of Rosemont Seneca Partners, Devon Archer, has been a member of the Burisma Board of Directors since April 2014. According to information on the oil and gas company's website, Biden also joined the Board of Directors in April 2014, but this has become known only now.

Burisma Holdings (which is registered in Cyprus) owns two oil and gas production companies -- Esco-Pivnich and Pari. They own licenses to exploit the Rakytyanska, Karaikozovske, and Roganska fields in Kharkiv Oblast, the Peremyshlyanska, Chukvynska, Semygynivske, and Nikolvytske fields in Lviv Oblast, the Chemyngyvske and Pylypivske fields in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and also the Sheremetivske field in Chernihiv Oblast. Ukrainian media identify Mykola Zlochevsky, former minister of ecology and natural resources, as being one of Burisma's owners.

Experts are describing Biden's appointment as rather typical for US foreign policy.

"For the United States it is in principle quite traditional for the relatives of state leaders to be involved in private business in regions where the American state is rather active. Historically this practice was widespread in the Latin America region, which was linked to the United States by a semi-colonial relationship. We can now see them trying to extend the same practice to Ukraine. Given the uncertainty of its future this is possibly an overly hasty decision," Timofey Bordachev, director of the State University-Higher School of Economics Center for European Studies, considers.

There is nothing unusual here, Boris Kagarlitskiy, director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, agrees.

"This is the practice of so-called revolving doors that is widespread in America -- when big companies and politicians lobbying for their interests establish links at the level of kinship relationships in one way or another. This practice is now also being extended to Ukraine," he says.

Biden's motives can also be attributed to business considerations, Professor Maksim Braterskiy of the Higher School of Economics and National Research University, feels

"It is clear that there is some kind of political context here, but in general business is business. But at this kind of level business and politics are inseparable: Being the son of the US vice president, it is much easier to talk to other serious businessmen and open the requisite doors. This always has been and always will be the case -- there is nothing out of the ordinary here. I cannot see any geopolitical move here," he adds. There is a very strong political aspect to this move, Andrey Suzdaltsev, deputy dean of the Higher School of Economics Faculty of World Economics and Politics, disagrees.

"It is clear that this has nothing to do with investment. Most likely it has been done at the Ukrainian side's request. It is a kind of image thing: Ukraine has just received the first tranche of a loan from the IMF and it of course wants to demonstrate that people from the American elite will now come into Ukrainian companies and they will be followed by investment and new technology. It is the kind of element of support in that does not cost the Americans anything," Suzdaltsev is certain.

[Description of Source: Moscow Izvestiya Online in Russian -- Website of large-circulation daily that is majority-owned by Yuriy Kovalchuk's National Media Group and usually supports the Kremlin; URL: http://www.izvestia.ru/]

 

 

 

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den will handle the development of international cooperation, be in charge =
of legal matters, and advise the company on issues relating to business tra=
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 of Boies, Schiller &amp; Flexner LLP. Biden is also founder and managing d=
irector of Rosemont Seneca Partners. Another founder and managing director =
of Rosemont Seneca Partners, Devon Archer, has been a member of the Burisma=
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nd gas company's website, Biden also joined the Board of Directors in April=
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a, Karaikozovske, and Roganska fields in Kharkiv Oblast, the Peremyshlyansk=
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myngyvske and Pylypivske fields in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and also the She=
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