Poly Lecture Explores the Rise and Fall of Yukos Oil
The lecture, part of the Morton L. Topfer Chair Lecture Series, was held on Polytechnic University's MetroTech campus November 21.
Leonid Nevzlin, a majority shareholder and former senior executive of Yukos Oil,
discussed the effects of politics and government policy on the economic
development of post-communist Russia, and the dismantling of the
country's largest oil producer Yukos Oil. Yukos, the first
shareholder-owned company in Russia, was sold earlier this year to help
cover more than $27 billion in tax claims that the Russian government
lodged against the company. The company's founder was sentenced to
prison; Nevzlin immigrated to Israel.
