Mikhail Khodorkovsky tells John Laughland that American control of Iraq will be good for Cadillacs but bad for Russia
Opponents of the impending Anglo-American war against Iraq say that it will push up the oil price and thereby damage the world economy. This is the least of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s worries. Aged 39, Mr Khodorkovsky, is the chairman and CEO of Yukos Oil, Russia’s second-largest oil company. He is convinced that the medium-term effect of a new Gulf war will be to drive the oil price down to levels which will radically rewrite the map of world oil production, and give the USA total control of supplies. From this, the war for American gas-guzzlers, Khodorkovsky thinks we will all suffer.
Described variously by business magazines as ‘the toughest Siberian shark’ or ‘a Russian bad boy’, Khodorkovsky, a former head of the Moscow Komsomol, is the quintessential Russian oligarch.
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