At
his home in Moscow, the 53-year-old is probably the most influential
Russian Greek origin. A businessman from Rostov, who has in the eighties
by the workers highly worked in a tobacco factory to the chairman of
the Agrokom group. Today, tobacco and meat company of his wife, and Mr.
Sawidis focuses on the policy and its foreign business.
For Russians, the Hellenic crisis is a
great opportunity. in nearby Cyprus they have been around for nearly 20
years, large investors, they now turn to the neighboring country, where
rows of factories and homes for sale. For the investor Sawidis is Greece
“a highly emotional affair,” a country that wants to help it to become
profitable again. The sun-drenched state in the south, also offer him
the perfect “balance between business and salvation.” He has invested
not only in football, but also for example in the restoration of some
churches.
Engagement with tradition
It is a commitment to tradition. In
modern times, the Orthodox Russia saw itself as the protector of the
Orthodox Greeks against the all-powerful Ottoman Empire. The first
president of independent Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, was foreign
policy before 1827 in the service of State of the Tsar. In Athens, there
was a “Russian party”, which lobbied for a close alignment with Saint
Petersburg. Greeks emigrated to Russia and made careers.
Ivan Sawidis, the Greek Russian sat for
many years for the United Russia party of Vladimir Putin in the Duma. He
knows good and criticized the Russian president that all decisions
would be made today about Greece in the EU. And since determine Germany.
“That’s what Greece” very hurt, he says. Russia, however, wanted to
protect Greece, says Sawidis. And Russia have much to offer.
What? »Snow and frost,” he says, smiling. “These oil and gas and a lot of money.”
In Greece, the state-owned energy
industry is for sale. Under pressure from the EU, the government their
majority in the Greek gas company Depa, the gas network operator DESFA
and participation in the oil company Hellenic Petroleum (Elpe) sell. The
Russians are in addition to Japanese, Italians and Azerbaijanis to the
main bidders......................
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