When does it come into effect? American sanctions against the Russian majority Oil Industry of Serbia, for citizens of Serbia will face problems that were thought to have remained in the nineties.
The first, of course, is a possible shortage of oil, since it will not be able to be delivered through the Janaf pipeline.
As Miša Brkić writes in the new issue of "Vremena" (on newsstands from Thursday, October 9), Belgrade has apparently turned to a "creative" solution - the construction of a "shadow fleet" that should bring oil from Hungary by river.
Namely, in domestic business circles, unusual phenomena on the market of transport services are noticeable these days. Two powerful people, close to the regime, are rapidly registering river tankers for transporting oil with the competent regulator.
"A well-informed insider claims that it is a large fleet of ships (and barges) that is supposed to transport crude oil on the Danube from the warehouse of the MOL company in Hungary to the refinery of the Oil Industry of Serbia in Pancevo. Something like the Russian shadow fleet with which Putin avoids Western sanctions and exports oil to customers around the world," Brkić writes.
The only chance
The Serbian fleet of tankers is being prepared as the only remaining solution - since all other options have failed.
"It is an interesting coincidence that the same powerful tandem close to the government was secretly preparing a plan to buy the Russian share in the Oil Industry of Serbia from Gazprom/Gazpromnia this spring," writes Brkić.
"That ambitious business stunt was discovered by the Russian intelligence services, so President Putin reacted fiercely and reminded the President of Serbia (May, visit to Moscow) that the Russian part of NIS is not for sale. Not at any price," the text adds.
Full text read in the new issue of "Vremena" from Thursday, October 9.
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