[ 21:08 ] MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia´s President Vladimir Putin and Lord John Browne, TNK-BP petroleum mammoth chair, sat in conference today. Fiscal claims were safely out of the agenda, Igor Shuvalov, President Putin´s aide, said to the media."Lord Browne reassured the corporation was very comfortably-off in Russia," he added.Shuvalov´s encouraging words concerned last week´s alarming news. The TNK, or Tyumen Petroleum Company-part of the TNK-BP Russian-British holding, was confronted with finds of a repeated fiscal check for 2001, with a claim for 22 billion ruble arrears.
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link to en.rian.ru]
Info on Lord John Browne:
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link to www.bp.com]
Various roles of Lord John Browne:
Non-executive director of the Intel Corporation
Non-executive director of Goldman Sachs
Trustee of The British Museum
Member of the International Advisory Board of Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer
Emeritus chairman of the advisory board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chairman of the International Advisory Board, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Chairman of the Advisory Board, Judge Institute of Management Studies - Cambridge
Trustee of the Cambridge Foundation and member of the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors
Member of the board of Catalyst
Director of Conservation International and chairman of the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business
Global Counsellor of the Conference Board, Inc.
Vice president of the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum
Member (and former chairman) of the British American Business Inc
Honorary Trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
-- Of course, Condi Rice was formerly provost of Stanford University and CEO of Chevron Oil... and was in Russia day-before-yesterday meeting with Putin.
Interesting...