Word: tver
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...rise of Rosneft is typical. Founded in 1993, Rosneft was for years an insignificant holding company overseeing a jumble of small oil fields. Since getting hold of the Yukos assets, which it nominally acquired from an unknown finance company whose address was a café in the city of Tver, it has become the nation's third largest oil company, producing 1.5 million bbl. per day. While president Bogdanchikov is an oil-industry expert, the chairman of the board is Igor Sechin, Putin's deputy chief of staff. Gazprom, the state company that controls almost 90% of Russian gas production...