A payback time of 19 years means a return on investment of 5.25%. My bank gives more...

isn't this the whole point? the original "planned" price was 4bn, then the russians next "planned" price when it's almost too far gone to exit is 6bn, and the REALISTIC estimated price by the germans is close to 10bn.... perhaps the russians should guarantee the price will never ever exceed the original 4bn, and then they'll have investors biting their hand off. not going to happen though.

it would be very interesting to see where all of the money already spent has gone - i'd imagine there's a lot of current and ex politicians with large engineering consultancy fees who have qualifications very similar to mr dogans....