This one for all the Putin fans.. THE MAN's MAN
Angry Putin rips into top oligarch
Putin also summoned Deripaska to his seat..slammed a pen at him and told him that he didn't see his signature on 'raw materials supplies' agreement. Deripasla apparently did so 'with his head hung low like a school boy'. There was also apparently a threat to seize property if back-pay isn't settled immediately - which they did ofcourse.
Angry Putin rips into top oligarch
Angry Putin rips into top oligarch
Sat, Jun 06, 2009
The Straits Times
PIKALYOVO (RUSSIA): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch, accusing him and other factory owners in a crisis-hit town of greed and likening them to 'cockroaches'.
Mr Putin, playing on the anger of protesting workers in the town of Pikalyovo, forced Mr Oleg Deripaska, a top metals tycoon and once Russia's richest man, to sign a contract for supplies to help idle factories restart operations.
'You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed,' he told Mr Deripaska and two other businessmen who own cement and alumina factories in the town in a confrontation broadcast on television.
Sat, Jun 06, 2009
The Straits Times
PIKALYOVO (RUSSIA): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch, accusing him and other factory owners in a crisis-hit town of greed and likening them to 'cockroaches'.
Mr Putin, playing on the anger of protesting workers in the town of Pikalyovo, forced Mr Oleg Deripaska, a top metals tycoon and once Russia's richest man, to sign a contract for supplies to help idle factories restart operations.
'You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed,' he told Mr Deripaska and two other businessmen who own cement and alumina factories in the town in a confrontation broadcast on television.
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