| ALEKSANDR GAVRIN Energy Minister • LUKoil Steals: With friends like LUKoil, who needs speed on the basepaths? Lies: Petroliferously Hair: Not bad for his age, but thinning around the ears Jewish: Hard to say Connections: LukOIL Career notes: Yet another “political unkown” with “no government track-record”... 47 years old... Takes over ministry which no longer contains the words “Fuel And”. though no one knows what this means... Cut his teeth in legendary Tyumen, graduating from the region’s technical institute... worked several “energy-related” jobs before becoming “a LUKOil man in a big way”... formerly the Mayor of Kogalym... currently expected to do good things, like bringing Russia’s oil and gas sectors under strict regulatory control Minor League Notes: Born in Zaporozhskaya oblast in Ukraine. |
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