Which exhiled Russian businessman acquired a Russian owned oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia?
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Yukos OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (Russian: ОАО Нефтяна́я Компа́ния Ю́КОС , ] ) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia. Yukos was acquired from the Russian government by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep during the controversial "loans for shares" auctions of the mid 1990s. Between 1996 and 2003 Yukos became one of the biggest and most successful Russian companies, producing 20% of Russia's oil output, as much as Libya or Iraq, and Khodorkovsky became an advocate of democratization, international co-operation and Russian reform. In October 2003 Khodorkovsky—by then the richest man in Russia and 16th richest man in the world—was arrested, and the company was forcibly broken up for alleged unpaid taxes shortly after and declared bankrupt in August 2006. Courts in several countries later ruled that the real intent was to destroy Yukos and obtain its assets for the government, and act politically against Khodorkovsky. In 2014 the largest arbitration award in history, $50 billion (€37,2 billion), was won by Yukos' former owners against Russia.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Бори́сович Ходорко́вский , ] ; born 26 June 1963) is an exiled Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch, now resident in Switzerland.
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Alexander Smolensky Alexander Pavlovich Smolensky (Russian: Алексáндр Пáвлович Смолéнский ) (born July 6, 1954) was the founder and president of one of the largest private banks in Russia - "Bank Stolichny" (later known as SBS/AGRO) which collapsed in the 1998 Russian financial crisis wiping out its investors' savings. When asked what he owed his investors he replied: "dead donkey ears". In 1999, Russian prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest including charges of embezzlement and money laundering. This warrant, however, was later dropped. He currently controls the newspapers "Kommersant" and "Novaya Gazeta".
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Viktor Petrik Viktor Petrik (Russian: Виктор Петрик ) (born 1946) is a Russian businessman. He claims to have made a number of scientific breakthroughs which he markets through his company Goldformula. His supporters have compared him to Thomas Edison, but mainstream scientists dismiss his inventions as pseudoscience. Petrik gained a notoriety in Russia during the scandal, dubbed Petrikgate, related to the involvement of politicians in promotion of Petrik's pseudoinventions.
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Razgulay OJSC Razgulay Group () was one of Russia's largest agribusiness companies. It is based in Moscow.
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Viktor Chernomyrdin Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин , ] ; 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Russian politician. He was the first chairman of the Gazprom energy company and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s, and a participant in the transition from a planned to a market economy. From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. After that he was designated as a presidential adviser.
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Vladimir Dmitriev Vladimir Alexandrovich Dmitriev (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Дми́триев ; born August 25, 1953, Moscow) is a Russian businessman and former chairman of Vnesheconombank, a role he held from 27 May 2004 to 26 February 2016.
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Igor Markin Igor Nikolaevich Markin (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Маркин ; b. 1967) is a Russian entrepreneur. In 2007, he founded a private art museum in Moscow.
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Mikhail Lesin Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лесин; July 11, 1958 – November 5, 2015 ) was a Russian political figure, media executive and an adviser to president Vladimir Putin. In 2006 he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", one of Russia's highest state decoration for civilians. Mikhail Lesin was nicknamed the Bulldozer (Russian: Бульдозер ) because of his ability to get virtually all Russian media outlets under The Kremlin's control.
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Viktor Vekselberg Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (Russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг , Ukrainian: Віктор Феліксович Вексельберг ; born 14 April 1957) is a Ukrainian-born Russian businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate. According to "Forbes", his fortune is estimated at $13.6 billion, making him the fourth richest person in Russia, as of August 4, 2015.
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Sergey Peskov Sergey Nikolaevich Peskov is a Soviet-Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Ambassador to Pakistan from 2005 to 2009, and the current Russian Ambassador to Oman. He is the father of Dmitry Peskov who has been the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
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Maxim Vorobyev Maxim Yuryevich Vorobyev (born 1976) is a Russian businessman and investor.
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Andrei Volgin Andrei Volgin is a Russian businessman who came to prominence as a player in the early Russian securities market in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Andrei Volgin began his career in finance in the late 1980s at Moscow State University, graduating with a degree in economics.
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Kiril Domuschiev Kiril Petrov Domuschiev (Bulgarian: Кирил Петров Домусчиев ; born 18 April 1969) is a Bulgarian businessman.
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Farman Salmanov Farman Gurban oglu Salmanov (Azerbaijani: "Fərman Salmanov" ; Russian: "Фарман Салманов" ; July 28, 1931, Morul – March 31, 2007, Moscow) was an Azerbaijani geologist famous for discovering great oil fields in Western Siberia in Tyumen Oblast in 1961.
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Moukhtar Dzhakishev Moukhtar Dzhakishev (Kazakh: Мұхтар Жәкiшев ; Russian: Мухтар Джакишев ) is a notable Kazakh businessman and the former head of Kazatomprom.
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Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia Donald Trump has pursued business deals in Russia since 1987, and has sometimes traveled there to explore potential business opportunities. In 1996, Trump trademark applications were submitted for potential Russian real estate development deals. Trump's partners and children have repeatedly visited Moscow, connecting with developers and government officials to explore joint venture opportunities. Trump was never able to successfully conclude any real estate deals in Russia. However, individual Russians have invested heavily in Trump properties, and following Trump's bankruptcies in the 1990s he borrowed money from Russian sources. In 2008 his son Donald Trump Jr. said that Russia was an important source of money for the Trump businesses.
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Mikhail Balakin Mikhail Dmitrievich Balakin (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Балакин, born April 20, 1961) is a Russian billionaire, and chairman of the SU-155 group of companies.
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Maxim Korobov Maxim Leonidovich Korobov (born December 3, 1957) is a Russian businessman whose investments focus on the oil and gas sector. He is the controlling shareholder of SGO Sibgasoil Investments Limited, which has interests in Western Siberia.
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Inteco Inteco (Интеко in Russian, "Inteko") is a Russian construction company, 99% of which is owned by Yelena Baturina, Russia's richest woman and wife of former Moscow city mayor, Yuriy Luzhkov.
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17 December 2013 Ukrainian–Russian action plan The 17 December 2013 Ukrainian–Russian action plan is a "de facto" defunct proposed agreement between the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin publicized on 17 December 2013 whereby Russia would buy $15 billion of Ukrainian Eurobonds to be issued by Ukraine and that the cost of Russian natural gas supplied to Ukraine would be lowered to $268 per 1,000 cubic metres (the price was more than $400 at the time). The treaty was signed amid massive, ongoing protests in Ukraine for closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union. The interest rate on the loan would be renegotiated every three months, based on a verbal agreement between the two leaders.
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The Gorbachev Foundation The Gorbachev Foundation (Russian: Горбачёв-Фонд , "Gorbachyov-Fond") is a non-profit organization headquartered in Moscow, founded by the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1991 and began its work since January 1992. The foundation is active in researching the Perestroika era, current issues of Russian history and politics. It is financed by Mikhail Gorbachev and donations by people and companies.