No different from what American companies do around the world. At least they are making more than 16 cents an hour.

So it's "Russians" owning a mine in American's soil--who profit AND violate safety and health, excelling at the last. This benefits America/Americans how? That probably should be WHICH Americans/America...I'm not right wing, or "conservative" but somehow this highlights the dubious "ownership" by corporate citizens (or non-citizens) of finite resources by someone who doesn't live, breathe (or probably even pay taxes)anywhere around here--and wouldn't have much personal "exposure" if their activities result in degrading the living, breathing quality around here. It just seems to make it more obvious that the traditional-- as well as other, but all finite "commons", including the literal bedrock and things like mineral rights should never be surrendered to indivdual, i.e., "corporate" control. Let corporations lease and operate resources, sparingly and judiciously, but only to act in the best interest of the community, not the corporations. When and why would we give that away? Lets face it, if there is any good reason supporting our nationalism its that we share a bill of rights, delegate some powers to a representative state, and acknowledge we are sharing a chunk of real estate. In other words, be good neighbors to each other, as well as "others". How does someone like corporate BP, who only can exist (in this country) by grace of our allowing and defining it--how does some "one" like that get off even imagining the taking of deliberate, albeit incompetent, risk with "Our" Gulf of Mexico. The instantaneous association should be with corporate termination. Who ever dealt this mess we're in, they did it way before BP pulled the little plug down in that "spill". Now how do we get out?