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Tillerson plays a key role in ExxonMobil's efforts to find new fields, especially in Russia, where he is well connected to officialdom, all the way up to President Vladimir Putin. If he can grab a greater presence there, he will help assure the company's future--and maybe his own. --By Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...Vladimir Putin rapped on the microphone to get his ministers' attention. "Look over here and listen to me when I speak," he snapped. "If this is not interesting ... " He jerked his head toward the door, suggesting that the top officials gathered for this Security Council meeting should leave. It's not quite the calm, authoritative image the Russian President likes to project, but these days Putin often seems rattled. In an appearance on Russian TV last week, he warned of "clan struggles" that could plague the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, after its crucial elections...
...rags to riches in the giddy, shady privatization era of the early 1990s - and their companies agreed to merge last April - but their lives have since diverged. Khodorkovsky, 40, is now in jail, charged with embezzlement and tax evasion in what many call a politically motivated attack by President Vladimir Putin (Khodorkovsky denies the charges). And Abramovich, 37, can often be found at London's 42,000-seat Stamford Bridge stadium, watching his Chelsea Football Club play in the Premiership. Abramovich has inherited the crown of Russia's wealthiest man - but he seems to be making a move West. While...
First there was Gusinsky; then came Berezovsky; now it’s Khodorkovsky’s turn to face the Kremlin’s fickle wrath. The list of media moguls and industry titans that Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to arrest continues to grow. This time it looks like Putin is after the brass ring—Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man and owner of OAO Yukos, the fourth largest oil company in the world. As in earlier arrests, the Russian government claims that the oil tycoon violated regulations during the fast-and-loose privatization...
...several opposition parties, a move widely viewed as setting himself up as a future presidential challenger. That apparently rankled Putin, whose deal with the oligarchs is blunt: You stay out of national politics; I'll let you be. Two other tycoons who tangled with him, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, have fled into exile...