own company, and make rosneft with its kremlin ownership the biggest company on earth, that guy is putin s best friend. they worked together in the intelligence services back in the soviet day. they call him putin s shadow because in way too many pictures there s putin, then he s the only guy right there next to him. in this picture, he s the guy standing to putin s left in this same picture, if you look at the other side of it, the guy to putin s right who is shaking his hand, that s the ceo of exxonmobil who is donald trump s nominee to be secretary of state. here they are again. trump s pick for secretary of state and putin s shadow. this time without putin because sometimes it s fun hanging out alone. our secretary of state nominee rex tillerson, he knows the head of rosneft. he knows him very well. he signed a ginormous half trillion dollar deal with him to drill the arctic. that got cut short when russia invaded ukraine and annexed part of ukraine and the u.s.
29 bucks and absorb it into his own company, and make rosneft with its kremlin ownership the biggest company on earth, that guy is putin s best friend. they worked together in the intelligence services back in the soviet day. they call him putin s shadow because in way too many pictures there s putin, then he s the only guy right there next to him. in this picture, he s the guy standing to putin s left in this same picture, if you look at the other side of it, the guy to putin s right who is shaking his hand, that s the ceo of exxonmobil who is donald trump s nominee to be secretary of state. here they are again. trump s pick for secretary of state and putin s shadow. this time without putin because sometimes it s fun hanging out alone. our secretary of state nominee rex tillerson, he knows the head of rosneft. he knows him very well. he signed a ginormous half trillion dollar deal with him to drill the arctic. that got cut short when russia
businesses. top of his list is mikhail khodorkovsky, russia s richest man. and founder of yukos. he s been in jail for a year on tax fraud charges. and the company has been hit with his own tax bill. the action was ordered to clip his wing. but it was won by an unknown company. following weeks of speculation that the kremlin controlled the world s largest natural gas company would walk away the winner. vladimir putin arrested this billionaire who had dared oppose him. then he seized the oil company that made that guy so rich. seized yukos oil. they took yukos and said you re owned by a criminal, we re taking you. they took it and pretend sold it to an unknown oil company. who is this company that s buying it? days later the kremlin-owned oil government rosneft got it for 100 rubles, which is approximately $29 at the time. that s how much they got the oil company for. and the guy who heads up rosneft, the guy who ran that whole scheme to take yukos for 29 bucks and absorb it into his