Bangladesh, Nov. 16 -- Back in 2008, Serbia sold NIS (Naftna Industrija Srbije, literally the Oil Industry of Serbia) to Russian Gazprom Neft for around $560 million, with the latter committing to invest another $640 million in modernization by 2012. Taking inflation into account, that would be equivalent to $840 million and $970 million in todays money, respectively. At the time, the mainstream propaganda machine and Western embassies were very unhappy with this deal, calling it supposedly “bad for Serbia”. However, they “conveniently” forgot that, after the direct US/NATO aggression in 1999, much (if not most) of Serbias industrial potential and infrastructure was deliberately targeted and destroyed, resulting in...