Yukos
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OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" 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 controver
Mikhail Khodorkovsky—former Communist Youth leader turned billionaire—in 2001
Gazprom
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PJSC Gazprom is a Russian state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. The Gazprom name is a contraction of the Russian words gazovaya promyshle
Yukos
…to collect taxes but rather to bankrupt Yukos, appropriate its assets for the sole benefit of the Russian state and state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom, and remove Khodorkovsky from the political arena. The company was created on 15 April 1993 by Resolution No. 354 of the Russian government, following…
Gazprom's headquarters in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe
The ceremony marking the opening of a LNG production plant built as part of the Sakhalin-II project
Zapolyarnoye gas field
CEO of Gazprom Alexei Miller and Head of the China National Petroleum Company Zhou Jiping signed a $400 billion gas deal for natural gas supplies via the Eastern Route between Gazprom and CNPC, 21 May 2014 Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping pictured in background.