Bashneft
Bashneft is a Russian oil company formed by the transfer of the oil related assets of the Soviet oil ministry in Bashkortostan to the regional government of the Republic of Bashkortostan by Boris Yeltsin. It was then privatized during 2002-3 by Murtaza Rakhimov, the president of Bashkortostan, an ally of Yeltsin's, with a controlling interest in Bashkir Capital, a holding company controlled by Rakhimov's son, Ural Rakhimov. In 2009 a controlling interest in Bashneft was acquired for $2 billion by Vladimir P. Yevtushenkov and placed in his holding company, Sistema, but in July 2014 he was jailed and 72% of Sistema's interest in Bashneft seized by the Russian government. Following seizure of the company in December 2014 Yevtushenkov was released from jail, "charges not proven," but Ural Rakhimov was reported to have fled the country. It is one of the larger producers of oil products in the country. The company operates 140 oil and natural gas fields in Russia and has an annual oil production of 16 million tonnes. Bashneft owns three oil refineries located in Ufa with a combined capacity of 820,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) and 100 petrol stations.
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Igor Vladimirovich Zyuzin (born May 29, 1960) is a Russian businessman, Chairman of the Board of Directors and a major shareholder of the mining and steel group "Mechel". With a personal fortune of US$ 8.9 billion, he was at number 16 on the Forbes list of 200 richest Russian business people. He lost most of his net worth to a record drop in the Mechel stock price by late 2013.
In 1995 Igor Zyuzin and partner Vladimir Iorich formed Uglemetkooperatsiya, a coal-trading company, which was among the first to buy up shares in coal mines and pits in Russia's Kuzbass region. In 2001 the partners bought a controlling stake in Chelyabinsk Metals Factory, which formed the basis of the Mechel Group, which now has more than 20 plants and coals mines around the world. Three years later its shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Now Mechel is in the doldrums. In the first nine months of 2012 the company lost $550 million and racked up $9.1 billion in debt. In September 2012 Mechel announced it was selling assets including factories in Romania, a Lithuanian wire, nails and wire mesh maker called Mechel Namunas, and nicked producer Yuzhuralnickel.