CHAPTER 6. CORROSIVE IMPACT OF THE RF ON A UKRAINIAN STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE OF THE ENERGY INDUSTRY As mentioned above, one of the industries in which about 36% of strategic enterprises were formally liquidated is science and technology. Impulse OJSC was a focus for this project as an entity with a powerful scientific and technical base since Soviet times that was subsequently liquidated. As it turned out in the course of further research, this powerful enterprise and critical element of Ukrainian economic infrastructure was formally liquidated, but actually reorganized with the aim of shifting full control to the leader of the hitherto unknown to the general public V. Yeliseevs’ Financial and Industrial Group (coming from the RF and Donbass). At the same time, appropriation of such a profitable pearl remained unnoticed by both “political elites” and oligarchic clans, which were snatching state property as predators, and not typically minded to leave unattended enterprises even much less significant than Impulse OJSC. Historical research conducted on the establishment process of the company revealed another possible scheme to boost RF’s hybrid influence on a strategic enterprise in Ukraine. There are cases when destruction of a Ukrainian enterprise can cause damage to the aggressor country itself, for example, a Ukrainian enterprise relied on to service systems or equipment in the RF. In such instances Russia can use the method of establishing control over the enterprise (including using clandestine options) to ensure the security of its own enterprises, obtain intelligence information from the Ukrainian enterprise, and redirect financial flows in the interests of the aggressor country. In the case of Impulse OJSC – now known as SRPA Impulse PJSC – the project reviewers identified this kind of activity, even after the large-scale military invasion of the RF.
6.1. Brief background description of the enterprise Impulse dates back to 1956 as the Lysychansk branch of the Moscow Special Designing Bureau No. 245 (developer of automated control systems - ACS - for the national economy and the military-industrial complex). In 1982, it was designated as the leading organization in R&D of such ACS for the nuclear power plants (NPP) of the USSR. From 1985 to 1994, it took part in installation of control systems at 22 nuclear power units in different countries of the former socialist bloc in Central Europe. After Ukraine gained independence, it was reorganized into an open joint-stock company (OJSC), which developed and installed ACS, including at Russian facilities both nuclear and non-nuclear (Kolsk and Kursk NPPs, Kirishi and Berezovka HEPPs and Production Association Mayak).79 Within Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been targets of Russian aggression during the current war. Today, the enterprise continues steady operations in line with its profile and participates in tenders for development and installation of products at critical infrastructure facilities not only in Ukraine, but also abroad.
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