Putin's Oil The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia

by Sixsmith, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781441199683
• ISBN10: 1441199683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Putin's Oilrelates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, In particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. The book

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Flight to the east	p. 5
Into Siberia	p. 9
'Put down your guns!	p. 13
Boy from the Komsomol	p. 17
Gathering the team	p. 21
Computers and banks	p. 25
August 1991	p. 29
Sale of the century?	p. 33
Consolidating the gains	p. 37
New man in the Kremlin	p. 45
Buying up the Duma?	p. 51
Igor Sechin and the 'strongmen'	p. 55
Showdown in the Kremlin	p. 59
Looking for trouble	p. 63
Pipelines and provocation	p. 71
Open Russia	p. 77
Friends in the West	p. 85
The Family and the Siloviki	p. 91
More arrests	p. 97
Yukos and the struggle for Russia	p. 101
A Kremlin double-cross?	p. 109
Exile or gaol	p. 115
Americans in town	p. 123
The Exxon Mobil gaffe	p. 129
A final plea?	p. 133
Arrest in Siberia	p. 139
Counting the cost	p. 147
Trying to stay afloat	p. 153
The Abramovich connection	p. 159
The Kremlin explains	p. 167
Fight or flight	p. 175
Khodorkovsky shunned	p. 181
'Just like Al Capone'	p. 189
Justice on trial	p. 195
The murder business	p. 203
The Chechen connection	p. 209
Hostages?	p. 217
In the camps	p. 227
Prophet in a prison cell	p. 233
A battle of Titans	p. 239
The UK connection	p. 249
The British troika	p. 255
A Canadian gambit	p. 261
The Brits bite back	p. 267
Cashing in the profits	p. 275
The startled accountants	p. 283
Traitors in the ranks?	p. 289
Hope	p. 295
Hope abandoned	p. 301
Light at the end of a disaster?	p. 309
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