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Prologue
Chapter one. Beginning
Chapter two. In our office
Chapter three. Holding
Chapter four. Military
Chapter five. The new head of the department and the first success
Chapter six. New direction
Chapter seven. Tough Business
Chapter eight. Melpomene in our service
Chapter nine. John Hunter’s Lessons
Chapter ten. Needle penetration depth
Chapter eleven. The Svetogorsk fiasco
Chapter twelve. Dell Holdings Limited
Chapter thirteen. Lithuania
Chapter fourteen. Vilnius – Klaipeda
Chapter fifteen. Latvia
Chapter sixteen. New faces: Finn, Swede and brothers
Сhapter seventeen. Ventspils
Chapter eighteen. What’s happening?
Chapter nineteen. Bathhouse, LUKoil and what does the governor have to do with it
Chapter twenty. Trouble on all fronts
Chapter twenty-one. The return and the bandit Seryozha
Chapter twenty-two. Fertilizers
Chapter twenty-three. Dark deeds and Tobolsk propane-butane
Chapter twenty-four. Tsiolkovsky and Grozny oil
Chapter twenty-five. Do you believe psychics?
Chapter twenty-six. ChechenTelecom, London and Astrakhan
Chapter twenty-seventh. Customs and smoking cessation
Chapter twenty-eight, she’s the first. Women and an oligarch for an hour
Chapter twenty-nine. Oil depot
Chapter thirty. Gasoline or crude oil?
Chapter thirty-one. Independent Inspector
Chapter thirty-two. Internal corporate ethics
Chapter thirty-three. Ararat Park Hyatt Hotel and talented managers
Chapter thirty-four. Gentle disassembly and the hotel California, in the sense of Rumb
Chapter thirty-five. Tragic
Chapter thirty-six. Where are moving?
Chapter thirty-seven. And Ventspils again
Chapter thirty-eight. TNK-BP, Yukos and LUKoil
Chapter thirty-nine. Mercedes
Chapter fortieth. Japanese mother and MX-Trading company
Chapter forty-one. St. Petersburg Stock Exchange
Chapter forty-two. Stone like coal
Chapter forty-three. Tenders: the Ministry of Defense and the Government of Moscow
Epilogue
On one incessant dark morning on December fourteenth, 1995, policemen from the DCEC – Department for Combating Economic Crimes – and, for solidity, a bus with riot police drove up to our office. Parallelepipeds in uniform and with machine guns blocked the entire building and penetrated to our floor, put guards at the entrance and exit, suppressed those present with glances and the shine of trunks, ordered: do not walk, do not call, do not turn on computers, do not answer calls. One-two! But, of course, it is difficult to arrest thirty offices at the same time, and in this situation the warning signal went to our leaders – unlike the «mattress period» they did not appear in the office in such situations, and the armed detachment was met not by «evil Chechens», but by peaceful citizens of Slavic and not quite nationality with no hint of aggressiveness on honest faces. Safes were opened, documentation and computer data were seized, ridiculous questions were asked:
– Why do you keep your driver’s license in a safe?
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The place for the meeting is familiar to me – the Central Research Institute Rumb, the industry information center of the shipbuilding industry of the country. I was here, on Zaitseva Street, about five years ago, during the Soviet Union – a secret organization, security clearances. And today, without these difficulties. A solid Stalinist building with white half-columns, wide staircases, large windows, high ceilings is a place where it is prestigious to work. Or, in modern terms, «cool»…
Felix Andreevich’s office is spacious, as befits the head of the foreign economic department of a solid organization. The owner himself is located at a large table to the right of the door, on the table are business papers, a couple of telephones and a mauser (just kidding). The amazing thing is that I immediately took a liking to this extraordinary man. A thick-set brunette of about sixty with confident manners, a handsome manly face whitened with gray hair and life experience with a prepossessing smile. The presentation of my story and the desire to burn at work was received favorably. During the conversation, he X-rayed me with the attentive gaze of his gray eyes and read emotions like an experienced psychologist. But there was no feeling of discomfort or tension, despite the importance of this dialogue. I was given to understand – he will report to the management and he will inform the decision. I was happy, I wanted to work here and do exactly that, and it was with you, Felix Andreevich – that’s how the stars came together…
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