Yukos’s main production unit was sold to Baikal Finance Group, a mysterious firm set up two weeks earlier and registered at the address of a vodka bar in Tver, a provincial town north of Moscow.

Yukos's main production unit was sold to Baikal Finance Group, a mysterious firm set up two weeks earlier and registered at the address of a vodka bar in Tver, a provincial town north of Moscow.

" he bellowed, and the three of us drank another round of Johnnie Walker Red at the FEP restaurant in Ostashkov, a drowsy lakeside town in Russia's Tver province north of Moscow.