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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822933003321

Autore

Sixsmith Martin

Titolo

Putin's oil : the Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia / / Martin Sixsmith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4411-7988-7

1-282-87506-X

9786612875069

1-4411-5649-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

338.2/72820947

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - Russia (Federation)

Energy policy - Russia (Federation)

Businesspeople - Russia (Federation)

Rule of law - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; PART: ONE; PART: TWO; PART: THREE; PART: FOUR; PART: FIVE; PART: SIX; PART: SEVEN

Sommario/riassunto

Putin's Oil is the story of Russia's energy wars and their consequences for Moscow and the world. Written by Martin Sixsmith, former BBC Moscow correspondent, Putin's Oil focuses on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of Yukos, once the country's biggest oil firm and the key to Russia's economy. In October 2003, troops carrying machine guns boarded Khodorkovsky's plane on the runway of a Siberian airfield. Within hours, the richest man in Russia was hauled back to Moscow wearing handcuffs and a black canvas hood over his head. Vladimir Putin had flexed his political might and changed the political cou