Martin Sixsmith

Putin's Oil (eBook, ePUB)

The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. "Putin's Oil" investigates the complex world of Kremlin politics, including conspiracies and conspiracy theories, allegations that Roman Abramovitch plotted with Putin to destroy Khodorkovsky, suspicions of betrayal and double agents in the Kremlin and in Yukos, murder charges against Khodorkovsky's partners, and the KGB defector who claims they were carried out by Kremlin agents. After the mysterious death in a helicopter crash of the Englishman who had taken over Yukos, the company's war against the Kremlin is now being waged by a troika of mild mannered Britons, pursued by Interpol arrest warrants and Moscow's fury. Khodorkovsky remains in a penal camp in far Eastern Siberia. Martin Sixsmith, former BBC Moscow Correspondent, has gained unprecedented access to many of the players in the drama. The resulting book is both a thriller and an analysis of the defining moments of Putin's presidency and their ongoing impact in Russian and world politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441179883
• Artikelnr.: 48422097

Autorenporträt

Martin Sixsmith is a bestselling author, television and radio presenter and journalist.

He began working at the BBC in 1980 as a foreign correspondent, reporting from Moscow during the end of the Cold War, the era of Perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1997, he went to work for the government of Tony Blair as Director of Communications and Press Secretary to Harriet Harman and then to Alistair Darling. He then served as Director of Communication at the Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions.

Sixsmith is the author of two political novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh. He has also published an account of the Litvinenko murder, The Litvinenko File, and made a documentary film in 2008 exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and the FSB.

His book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee was turned into a hugely successful film in 2013, starring Judi Dench.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter 1. Flight to the East
Chapter 2. Into Siberia
Chapter 3. "Put Down Your Guns!"
PART TWO
Chapter 4. Boy from the Komsomol
Chapter 5. Gathering the Team
Chapter 6. Computers and Banks
Chapter 7. August 1991
Chapter 8. Sale of the Century?
Chapter 9. Consolidating the Gains
PART THREE
Chapter 10. New man in the Kremlin
Chapter 11. Buying up the Duma?
Chapter 12. Igor Sechin and the 'Strongmen'
Chapter 13. Showdown in the Kremlin
Chapter 14. Looking for Trouble
Chapter 15. Pipelines and Provocation
Chapter 16. Open Russia
Chapter 17. Friends in the West
PART FOUR
Chapter 18. The Family and the Siloviki
Chapter 19. More Arrests
Chapter 20. Yukos and the Struggle for Russia
Chapter 21. A Kremlin Double Cross?
Chapter 22. Exile or Jail
Chapter 23. Americans in Town
Chapter 24. The Exxon Gaffe
Chapter 25. A Final Plea?
Chapter 26. Arrest in Siberia
PART FIVE
Chapter 27. Counting the Cost
Chapter 28. Trying to Stay Afloat
Chapter 29. The Abramovich Connection
Chapter 30. The Kremlin Explains
Chapter 31. Fight or Flight
Chapter 32. Khodorkovsky Shunned
PART SIX
Chapter 33. "Just like Al Capone"
Chapter 34. Justice on Trial
Chapter 35. The Murder Business
Chapter 36. The Chechen Connection
Chapter 37. Hostages?
Chapter 38. In the Camps
Chapter 39. Prophet in a Prison Cell
Chapter 40. A battle of Titans
PART SEVEN.
Chapter 41. The UK Connection
Chapter 42. The British Troika
Chapter 43. A Canadian Gambit
Chapter 44. The Brits Bite Back.
Chapter 45. Cashing in the Profits
Chapter 46. The Startled Accountants
Chapter 47.  Traitors in the Ranks?
Chapter 48. Hope
Chapter 49. Hope Abandoned
Chapter 50. Light at the End of a Disaster?