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This chapter contains a detailed case study of Macedonia. The chapter starts with an introduction and then presents the upstream, midstream, and downstream sections of the country’s oil value chain. These detailed sections provide much-needed insight into the oil sector of the country and are followed with information on Russian involvement and operations in its oil market. The chapter then concludes with an evaluation of the research indicators showing Russian activity in the oil sector of the country.
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EL.P.ET. Balkaniki S.A. is a company jointly controlled by Hellenic Petroleum S.A. (63%) and Consortium of banks APE (37%) (OKTA Crude Oil Refinery A.D., 2014, p. 13).
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In the 2000s, interest to purchase the company was shown by the Russian-Israeli-British company Balkan Petroleum Holding Limited with very shady businesspeople and oligarchs Uri Bider (Isreali), Vasili Evdokimov (British), Mikhail Chorny (Russian), and Serhiy Kurchenko (Ukrainian) behind it. Later in 2016, two Russian millionaires, Alexander Kaplan and Alexander Smuzikov (ex-TNK-BP employees), also expressed interest in buying out Makpetrol A.D. As it currently stands, nothing has been realized (Casule & Zhdannikov, 2016; ‘Кои се луѓето’, 2016).
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See the chapter on Bulgaria for more information about the AMBO pipeline.
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Numerous young Macedonians study in Russia (one year for the language, then five years at university), with their studies fully covered by the Russian state scholarship programme (Interview 03).
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See the chapter on Greece for more information.
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Interview 01: Ohrid, Macedonia, August 29, 2017.
Interview 02: Ohrid, Macedonia, August 29, 2017.
Interview 03: Skopje, Macedonia, August 30, 2017.
Interview 04: Skopje, Macedonia, August 30, 2017.
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Vlček, T., Jirušek, M. (2019). Republic of Macedonia. In: Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19839-8_9
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