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

Title
Putin's oil : the Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia / Martin Sixsmith.
Author
Sixsmith, Martin.
Publication
New York : Continuum, 2010.

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Description
311 pages; 24 cm
Summary
The story of Russia's energy wars and their consequences, focusing on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of Yukos, which was once the country's biggest oil firm and key to the Russian economy.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Trial and arbitral proceedings.
  • Nonfiction.
Contents
Flight to the east -- Into Siberia -- 'Put down your guns!' -- Boy from the Komsomol -- Gathering the team -- Computers and banks -- August 1991 -- Sale of the century? -- Consolidating the gains -- New man in the Kremlin -- Buying up the Duma? -- Igor Sechin and the 'strongmen' -- Showdown in the Kremlin -- Looking for trouble -- Pipelines and provocation -- Open Russia -- Friends in the west -- The family and the Siloviki -- More arrests -- Yukos and the struggle for Russia -- A Kremlin double-cross? -- Exile or gaol -- Americans in town -- The ExxonMobil gaffe -- A final plea? -- Arrest in Siberia -- Counting the cost -- Trying to stay afloat -- The Abramovich connection -- The Kremlin explains -- Fight or flight -- Khodorkovsky shunned -- 'Just like Al Capone' -- Justice on trial -- The murder business -- The Chechen connection -- Hostages? -- In the camps -- Prophet in a prison cell -- A battle of Titans -- The UK connection -- The British troika -- A Canadian gambit -- The Brits bite back -- Cashing in the profits -- The startled accountants -- Traitors in the ranks? -- Hope -- Hope abandoned -- Light at the end of a disaster?
ISBN
  • 9781441199683
  • 1441199683
LCCN
2009024044
OCLC
  • ocn317928337
  • 317928337
  • SCSB-9227722
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries