It’s business, Russian-style – and let’s hope it’sthird time lucky for BP’s Bob Dudley
‘It was just business, Russian-style.’ That was how Bob Dudley described to me his experience in 2008 of having to manage the TNK-BP joint venture in Siberia by email from a secret location in Central Europe — because BP’s Russian partners had made it too dangerous for him to remain in the country.
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