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...ability to simply barge the opposition off the political playing field has shown. Far more worrying to Putin, however, were the oil tycoon's plans to build Russia's first oil pipeline independent of state control, and his efforts to sell a major share of his company to Exxon Mobil. States in which oil-production is a major source of export earnings tend to treat is a strategic industry, and Khodorkovsky's desire to make Yukos independent of Moscow's influence was intolerable to Putin and those around...
...INDICATORS Oil Under Fire U.S. lawyers filed suit against Royal Dutch/Shell after the Anglo-Dutch oil group slashed its proven reserves estimate by 20% last month. And a judge in Alaska ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $6.75 billion in damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...
...push as an unnecessary expense and a distraction. Now, he says, "everyone understands this is really a part of the business." Even so, such efforts are unusual in the notoriously dirty oil business. Evidence of alleged bad behavior abounds: this year alone, a U.S. consultant and a former Exxon Mobil executive have been indicted in New York City, the chairman of Norway's Statoil resigned amid bribery charges and a former chief executive and two senior officials of France's Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total - were convicted in Paris, all for separate corruption-related offenses. Unlike consumer-products companies...
...most prominent Russian industrialist—and its seizure of 44 percent of Yukos—only makes the business climate more unpredictable and unattractive. Indeed, capital has once again started to flee from the country, and it now looks as though an anticipated merger of Yukos with Exxon Mobil is on the ropes...
...power. Khodorkovsky, shortly before his arrest, had moved to merge his company Yukos with another energy company, Sibneft, which would have made it the fourth-largest privately-held oil producer in the world, with one-fifth of the reserves of Kuwait. And Khodorkovsky had for months been courting Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco to buy up to 40 percent of the shares in the new company for billions of dollars. For the now ascendant siloviki faction around Putin - men from the "power ministries" such as the armed forces, police and intelligence services, both the power of the new corporation...