Hello from Patrick Hanna
Hello former KAO colleagues and friends,
I hope you are well with the KAO folks. I continue to be in Russia, now working in the Far East in a city called Blagoveschensk. We are located on the Chinese border and I can see China from my apartment, across the Amur river. Here I am working as Finance Director with Berezitovy Rudnik, a gold mining company owned by High River Gold out of Toronto. We are currently in the process of developing an open mine site and hope to start production in July 2005.
I joined here in March of this year after the Finnish partner, Neste/Fortum, sold their interest in SeverTEK last year and LUKoil took over the operation in November. My family continues to be resident in Moscow and I spend here 3 weeks out of every month. I wish to still find something closer to home; home now being Moscow. I enjoy very much living and working in Russia.
Take care, and thank you for keeping me informed of KAO events. It was good to join part of the old group in SeverTEK and I hope our paths cross again in the near future.
Regards,
Patrick Hanna
October 16, 2006