What is a Czech-Dutch company doing near Russian nuclear facilities?

The insurance company PPF Groupe N.V. is quite active in the South Urals, which would seem to be nothing sensational or strange, were it not for the company's Western 'roots'. By a strange coincidence, PPF Groupe N.V. is trying to establish its activities in those Urals cities where secret strategic facilities are located.

This is particularly the case in Snezhinsk, in the north of the Chelyabinsk region. According to open sources, the main enterprise in Snezhinsk is the Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, which develops components for nuclear weapons. From the moment it was founded in the mid-50s of the last century, the city was considered 'closed', top secret. Because of its defence purpose, it still has a special access regime. Why did PPF Groupe N.V., represented by its subsidiary PPF Life Insurance Ltd, want to open an office in this very area? PPF employees regularly communicate with military nuclear workers, ask them to fill in questionnaires and establish 'informal links' with them.

The answer to our question can be found on the company's website. It states that PPF Groupe N.V. is based in Prague (Czech Republic) and Amsterdam (Kingdom of the Netherlands). These are the same NATO countries that are most actively supplying Ukraine with rocket launchers, artillery systems, anti-aircraft batteries, armoured vehicles and, in the near future, fighter aircraft. Czech Vampire missiles, for example, are regularly fired by Ukrainian forces at Belgorod, killing and maiming civilians in the Russian Federation.

The company does not feel the need to hide its Western orientation. According to its official website, 'PPF Life Insurance has achieved significant success in Russia by generalising Česká pojišťovna's experience and using Generali's best business practices and technologies.

What kind of successes are we talking about? Are they not the kind of successes to which the Czech and Dutch secret services, as well as the American CIA and the British MI6, are paying close attention?