Sechin also presides over the board of directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, and helped with negotiations with France over the purchase of four Mistral-class ships. In July 2009, Sechin negotiated deals with Cuba that brought Russia into deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Sechin negotiated deals on weapons and nuclear technology deliveries to Venezuela. In 2008, Hugo Chávez said that the idea for Venezuelan nuclear energy program came from Sechin. In 2008, Sechin was involved with the BP oil company and did private negotiations with the BP's CEO Bob Dudley. He orchestrated the first case against me out of greed and the second out of cowardice." In 2008, Sechin allegedly blocked the replacement of the AAR consortium with Gazprom in the TNK-BP joint venture. Khodorkovsky has accused Sechin of plotting to have him arrested and plundering his oil company: "The second as well as the first case were organised by Sechin. He has additionally been president of Rosneft since May 2012. On 27 July 2004, Sechin became the successful and influential chairman of the board of directors of JSC Rosneft, which swallowed up the assets of jailed tycoon Khodorkovsky's Yukos. Thus, he represents the FSB's hand in Russia's energy sector." According to Stratfor, "Sechin acts as boss of Russia's gigantic state oil company Rosneft and commands the loyalty of the FSB. In May 2008, he was appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev as a deputy prime minister in a move considered as a demotion. From 24 November 1999 until 11 January 2000, Sechin was the first deputy chief of the Russian presidential administration.īetween 31 December 1999 and May 2008, he was deputy chief of Putin's administration. In August 1999, he was appointed head of the secretariat of the prime minister of Russia, Putin. From 1997 to 1998, Sechin was the chief of the general department of the main control directorate attached to the president, led by Putin. From 1996 to 1997, Sechin served as a deputy of Vladimir Putin, who worked in the presidential property management department. From 1991 to 1996, he worked at Saint Petersburg mayor's office, and became a chief of staff of the first deputy mayor, Vladimir Putin in 1994. In the 1980s, Sechin worked in Mozambique. Sechin graduated from Leningrad State University in 1984 as a linguist, fluent in Portuguese and French. Career Sechin with Russian President Vladimir Putin and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, 15 June 2012 Sechin with Russian President Putin, He has been sanctioned by some foreign governments following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sechin is often described as one of Putin's most conservative counselors and the leader of the Kremlin's Siloviki faction, a lobby gathering former security services agents. He is currently the chief executive officer, president and chairman of the management board of Rosneft. He was as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in Vladimir Putin's cabinet from 2008 to 2012. Putin appointed Sechin as chairman of Rosneft, the Russian state oil company in 2004. When Putin became President in 2000, Sechin became his deputy chief of staff, overseeing security services and energy issues in Russia. Sechin was chief of staff to Putin when he was the deputy mayor of St. Sechin has been a confidant of Russian leader Vladimir Putin since the early 1990s. Igor Ivanovich Sechin ( Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Се́чин born 7 September 1960) is a Russian oligarch and a government official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.
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