Evans and Russia's oil patch

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Back to the 1990-ies?

Recent offer to Evans /1/ looks like a direct response to the rant in WPost /2/. This move looks a lot like what happened to Russian economy in the 1990-ies under Yeltsin.

1. PETER LAVELLE. Evans and Russia's oil patch: http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051213-091549-8047r
Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans, who is a close friend of U.S. President Bush, is reported to have been offered the job of chairman of the Russian state oil company Rosneft ahead of its initial public offering next year. Bringing Evans on board may help improve the oil giant's damaged reputation in the wake of the Yukos affair, but is it enough for investors?

2. WPost. Gerhard Schroeder's Sellout: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201060.html

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1. Bush friend linked to top job in Russian oil industry: Guardian today:

Bush friend linked to top job in Russian oil industry

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Wednesday December 14, 2005
The Guardian


A former cabinet minister and close personal friend of George Bush may be appointed head of Russia's leading state oil company, it was reported yesterday.

Donald Evans, who was until early this year US commerce secretary, has been offered the position of head of the board of directors of Rosneft by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the respected business daily, Kommersant, reported yesterday.

If the appointment is confirmed, Mr Evans would be the second former senior foreign official to join the Kremlin's expanding energy empire. Last week, the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder accepted a job as chairman of the North European Gas Pipeline, a project to ferry gas between Russia and Germany that he helped broker.

A source close to Mr Evans in Washington last night declined to confirm the report, but said the former US official had met President Putin during his visit to Moscow last week. "He does not disclose the contents of private meetings," the source said, adding that Mr Evans had met other officials in the hope of improving business ties. Kommersant reported that Mr Evans also met the head of Rosneft, Sergei Bogdanchikov.
When asked about the report hours after it was published, the deputy minister for economic development, Andrei Sharonov, said the appointment of well-known foreign specialists to head Russian companies was "a positive fact that kills several birds with one stone".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,1666841,00.html

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2. "kills several birds with one stone." Yeah, revolving door is alive and

well with BushCo and international associates.

<snip>When asked about the report hours after it was published, the deputy minister for economic development, Andrei Sharonov, said the appointment of well-known foreign specialists to head Russian companies was "a positive fact that kills several birds with one stone".

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4. Thanks for the link!

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3. Why in the world, would you think 'Oil' has any borders?

isnt this a common understanding about corporations?