Oleg Mitvol
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Oleg Lvovich Mitvol (Russian: Олег Львович Митволь) (born October 3, 1966, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian businessman and government official.
In 1997 - 2003 Mitvol was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the JSC newspaper Novye Izvestiya.
As media tycoon Boris Berezovsky, owner of the newspaper, had fled from Russia to London, Oleg Mitvol obtained a 76% share in the newspaper from him, but Berezovsky effectively continued to support the newspaper financially. However, on February 20, 2003, Oleg Mitvol, citing a decision of a meeting of the board, kept secret from the journalists despite their 24% share, accused Director General of Novye Izvestiya Igor Golembiovsky of misappropriation of funds and fired him. The publication was suspended. [1] Boris Berezovsky claimed that Mitvol's move was politically motivated [2][3], as the newspaper was opposed to President Vladimir Putin and on that very day had published an article by Vladimir Pribylovsky about the allegedly emerging cult of Putin's personality. [4]
Since April 2004 he has been Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Service for the Oversight of Natural Resources.
In September 2006, he threatened to revoke environmental authorisation for Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin II oil and gas production project.
On December 14, 2006, Sergei Sai, Head of the Service, tried to fire Mitvol from this position. [5]
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- Official biography (in Russian).
- Biography, RIA Novosti (in Russian).
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