In June 2008, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson attended the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Russia’s answer to Davos, its way of showing itself to the world as the kind of economic powerhouse that can attract executives like Rex Tillerson to its banquets. It was a key and very shaky moment for Russia. Vladimir Putin was bowing out after his second term as president of Russia—the most the Russian constitution allows in a row, though he would figure out a way around it by 2012—and his successor, the relatively liberal Dmitri Medvedev, was debuting at the Forum. Tensions were heating up with …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
