On Foreign Publications Regarding Monetary Estimates of Mineral Resources in the Liberated Territories of the Northern Black Sea Region

Abstract

Aim. Analysis of the objectivity and competence of assessments by foreign researchers of reserves and resources of minerals in the liberated territories of the Russian Federation, expressed, including in monetary terms.
Methodology. Publications in Western media, discussion of these publications on Russian information portals, Russian and foreign encyclopedic online publications, as well as archival materials from the period of restoration of Donbass were analyzed.
Results. The given list of deposits of mineral raw materials does not correspond to the real figures reflected both in the state balance of mineral resources of Ukraine and earlier information on the Ukrainian SSR as part of the USSR. Open foreign sources on coal in the Northern Black Sea region do not take into account the work necessary to restore the level of extraction of mineral raw materials and its primary processing to the level of 2014. Publications show the lack of professional competence of peer-reviewed articles, including those in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Research implications. This analytical study shows the level of incompetence and bias of foreign researchers in assessing mineral reserves and resources, while simultaneously revealing real factual data on subsoil use and monetary assessment of the volume of mineral resources in the liberated territories of the Northern Black Sea region.