Word: dudley
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...Goodman ’84, a rabble rouser since her days living the Dudley Co-op, was named a winner of the Right Livelihood Award last week, an honor known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize...
...stop there: Putin's comments wiped tens of billions of dollars off Russia's stock market in a matter of days. The Mechel furore came on top of an ugly, months-long scrap over control of oil company TNK-BP between BP and its Russian billionaire partners. Robert Dudley, the BP-appointed CEO, last month quit Russia, citing "sustained harassment of the company and myself." BP blames its Russian partners for orchestrating a state administrative and regulatory crackdown on the firm in recent months; the Russians claim BP hasn't lived up to its contractual obligations. Asked what advice...
...Moscow From Russia: Get Out Robert Dudley, CEO of TNK-BP, a lucrative joint venture between British oil giant BP and a Russian consortium, has left the country following what BP called a "campaign of harassment" by Russian authorities, aimed at gaining control of the company. Dudley continues to run TNK-BP, which provides a quarter of BP's global production, from a secret location...
...their tone has changed. When current U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought up TNK-BP with Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's successor, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit on July 7, the uneasy discussion was of a breakdown in relations between the British and Russian partners. Meanwhile, Dudley, the company's BP-appointed boss, is battling to keep his job. In Moscow that same day, AAR, the Russian consortium that controls 50% of TNK-BP, called for his dismissal, claiming that the business was floundering...
...only headache, either. In recent months, Russian security services have raided the firm's premises as part of an industrial espionage probe, detaining a low-level employee (though TNK-BP itself was not involved in the investigation); officers at Russia's Interior Ministry have questioned Dudley as a witness in connection with another probe into tax evasion at a firm later absorbed into TNK-BP; and dozens of the company's foreign staff may have to leave Russia after authorities nixed requests to renew their work permits. BP suspects AAR may be behind the regulatory squeeze; the consortium insists that...