AFP, Moscow :
The Russian government has nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, to join the board of Rosneft, the energy giant under Western sanctions.
Schroeder was among seven nominees in a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev published on the Russian government’s website late Friday. The names will go to a shareholders’ vote in late September in a move to increase Rosneft’s board from nine to 11.
Schroeder was nominated as a non-executive director of Rosneft, a company born out of Yukos, a state entity that later came under the control of government opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Rosneft has been dogged by a string of legal claims from New York to Paris and Amsterdam since snaffling up Yukos after it was dismantled following Khodorkovsky’s high-profile arrest in 2003 and jailing.
Friday’s decree also named Rosneft director general Igor Sechin, a close ally of Putin, Kremlin official Andrei Belousov and Energy Minister Alexander Novak as the state’s representatives on the board.
The Russian government has nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, to join the board of Rosneft, the energy giant under Western sanctions.
Schroeder was among seven nominees in a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev published on the Russian government’s website late Friday. The names will go to a shareholders’ vote in late September in a move to increase Rosneft’s board from nine to 11.
Schroeder was nominated as a non-executive director of Rosneft, a company born out of Yukos, a state entity that later came under the control of government opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Rosneft has been dogged by a string of legal claims from New York to Paris and Amsterdam since snaffling up Yukos after it was dismantled following Khodorkovsky’s high-profile arrest in 2003 and jailing.
Friday’s decree also named Rosneft director general Igor Sechin, a close ally of Putin, Kremlin official Andrei Belousov and Energy Minister Alexander Novak as the state’s representatives on the board.
