Russian Federal Security Service gives wrong secret maps
An American newspaper reports about obstacles for foreign oil companies in Russia.

An American newspaper reports about obstacles for foreign oil companies in Russia.
In that way the Kremlin by hand of Federal Security Service is trying to take control over the whole industry using energy export for return of the status lost with USSR breakdown.
The intensification of state’s influence in oil-producing industry and persecution of Russian physicists are concerned with each other and the reason is to take over the control of financial flows and have an influence upon society and business, The New York Times thinks.
The foreign employee of joint company TNK-VR Bruce Morrow has been working at the lake Samotlor for three years; it is a tiny pond in a maze of oil wells and roads which lay on the area of more than 1000 square miles in Siberian tundra.
Morrow could not understand where he was situated using maps given by Russians and that exasperated the oil engineer. Latitude and longitude were painted over on these maps and coordinate scale was dislodged to the North. "It was like a game", - said Morrow about his attempts to gain an understanding of edited maps, remain of cold war which was given to him by secretive men from a special office of his company.
Meanwhile, the newspaper reports, everyone may look at Samotlor using the internet with such free software as Google Earth and determine its coordinates: 61 degree 7’ of north latitude and 76 degree 45’ of east longitude.
Morrow’s history is a bright example of that "orders in former USSR still hide in corridors where bureaucrats of the communist past are trying to cling to power". They proceed with the tradition of secrecy and the tradition of holding foreigner at a distance, and the offer for many people depends on Moscow, The New York Times informs.
Wrong maps reflect the Kremlin’s intensification of the control over Russian oil, which significance must increase by 2010 plans to arrange direct supplies to USA via ports of the Far East and Trans-polar.
Federal Security Service imposes the secrecy concerning maps. The corresponding direction was written when Russia suspected of almost every foreign oil company and was afraid of a nuclear attack to Siberian oil wells. These days are over but Russian government is taking back over the control of strategic-significant industries, particularly, oil, and the direction was not cancelled.