Do Sibneft owners plan to openly support any parliamentary or presidential candidates in the election?
– Sure, like all citizens the company shareholders have this constitutional right. – Your partner Khodorkovsky speaks outright that he supports Yabloko and that a party like this is essential in this country. – Thats his choice as a citizen, which we undoubtedly respect. But his political position is not related to the consolidated companys operations. The company will work hard and we hope that this will result in an improvement in the general climate of the country. Sibneft was the first Russian company to report its financial results under US GAAP standards. Now, practically all companies do it. YUKOS and Sibneft were the first to decide that service companies should be contracted from outside by way of tenders. Nobody believed it then, but now the practice has become common. We started investing considerable amounts into science and education, because we are focused on long-term project development and the formation of intellectual resources. There are plenty of other examples like
