Career Notes: Won massive stake in Yukos in loans-for-shares deal for almost nothing...Owned, through Bank Menatep, a 10% stake in Moscow Times's parent company Independent Media...Currently ensconced in Yukos minority shareholder mess... Got government to assume its private-depositor debts after August crash...Name instantly recalls phenomenon of postcommunist spook profiteers...We dare you to run up to him waving a toy water pistol.

Minor League Notes: Former head of the Moscow Komsomol.