January 2007
Russia has featured heavily in the news, following the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. Speculation is raging over whether the assassination was ordered by president Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, or by Chechen separatists.
Shell’s Sakhalin 2 project in the Russian far east has also been in the spotlight. In early December, Russia suspended 12 water-use licences. Coming only two months after environmental licences were revoked, this step was seen as a further move by the Russian authorities to pressure Shell into allowing much greater Russian ownership of the project.
If that was the intention, then it worked. Little more than a week after the suspension of the water licences, news came that Shell had made a series of offers to Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom, aimed at giving the Russian company a major stake in the project.
As Ethical Corporation went to press, it was announced that Gazprom will pay Shell £3.8 million for a controlling stake in the project.
Other foreign investors are feeling the effects of the Sakhalin events. Peter Hambro Mining has seen its shares slump after Russia’s environment agency called for the withdrawal of the firm’s operating licences in the country. As a result, the company’s chairman has travelled to Russia for meetings with the deputy head of the Russian environment agency, Oleg Mitvol.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
