Igor Sechin
1960 – ? Russian state official, oil executive
Putin's close aide who runs the state oil giant Rosneft, built up from the seized assets of Yukos.
- Affiliations
- Rosneft, Kremlin administration
Igor Sechin is one of Vladimir Putin's closest and most powerful associates, part of the group of former security men who came to dominate the state. As a Kremlin official and then chairman and chief executive of the state oil company Rosneft, he oversaw the absorption of the main production assets of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's dismantled Yukos, turning Rosneft into Russia's largest oil producer. He is often described as the leader of the hardline, state-first faction around Putin.
Connections
- rival of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — His Rosneft took over the assets of the broken-up Yukos.
- rival of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — The Putin aide whose Rosneft absorbed the assets of the dismantled Yukos.
- ally of Vladimir Putin — A close aide who leads the state-first faction and runs Rosneft.
- ally of Vladimir Putin — A close aide who ran Rosneft and absorbed the assets of the broken-up Yukos.
In the timeline
- 2004 Sechin becomes chairman of Rosneft the chairman
- 2004 Yuganskneftegaz auctioned to Rosneft the executive who absorbed the asset
- 2004 Yukos dismantled and absorbed by the state mentioned