Russian brawl

摘要

HE WAS back in favour, or so it appeared. After spending several months under house arrest in late 2014, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch, relinquished control of Bashneft, a midsized oil firm, to the state. "If you like another company tomorrow and want to take it, you are welcome," he told Vladimir Putin at the time, he later recalled. The president publicly gave his approval to Sis-tema, Mr Yevtushenkov's conglomerate, shares in which had plunged. Mr Yevtushenkov subsequently appeared at annual Kremlin receptions and late last year joined a presidential delegation to Crimea.