*As Oleg Mitvol, former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor (Russia’s federal environmental watchdog), who left his post in early September, told Kommersant, active talks are indeed underway about his becoming one of the leaders of Yabloko, but “the party bureau and congress will decide everything.” If the talks end successfully, Mr. Mitvol intends to oversee elections, as well as political and financial matters, within the party. *http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1040982&NodesID=2 And what will Mitrokhin be doing? Fire safety? Who Is Oleg Mitvol Born on October 3, 1966, in Moscow. In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, and in 1989 from a center affiliated with the Moscow Institute of National Economy, specializing in economic management. He worked as an engineer at the Space Research Institute, and in the late 1980s went into business. In 1993 he became one of the founders and joined the board of directors of the closed joint-stock company People’s Concern Oil Alliance. In 1994 he was appointed deputy chairman of the board of Oil Alliance Bank. </p>In August 1997 he became chairman of the board of directors of OAO Information and Publishing Group Novye Izvestia, which had been created with money from Boris Berezovsky and several other businessmen. Oleg Mitvol held 76% of the shares. In 2003 he accused Novye Izvestia editor-in-chief Igor Golembiovsky of financial misconduct and removed him from his post. In April 2004 he was appointed deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor. In that position he became involved in a number of high-profile scandals. The media widely covered Mr. Mitvol’s conflicts with officials and owners of real estate in the Moscow region, whom Rosprirodnadzor accused of violating the law. In addition, Rosprirodnadzor’s claims became one of the pressure tactics used against Shell, which was forced to hand control of the Sakhalin-2 project over to Gazprom. Mr. Mitvol also brought claims against other major companies, including LUKOIL, Gazprom, Total, RussNeft, Norilsk Nickel, Russian Railways, Transneft, LG, Oriflame, the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, and the Klin Brewery. On January 18, 2008, he submitted his resignation in protest against the appointment of Vladimir Kirillov as head of Rosprirodnadzor, but later changed his mind about leaving. Reports of Mr. Mitvol’s imminent dismissal surfaced repeatedly afterward, but his position was not finally eliminated until September. He is also known as a fixture of society events and as the producer of the music album I Will Always Wait for You, recorded by his wife Lyudmila, who in 2006 headed the Green Party list in the Moscow Oblast Duma elections. Thus Spoke Oleg Mitvol On Vladimir Putin “For me, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s assessment of my work as deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor is very important. It is like a university exam: I will be given a grade for my work” (July 11, 2008, in an interview with the newspaper Vremya Novostei). On his political mentors “At that time (in the 1990s.— Kommersant) my views on what was happening in the country fully coincided with Boris Berezovsky’s views” (February 20, 2003, in an interview with Kommersant). On what Russia lacks “The ideology of A Just Russia is absolutely clear to me. We are talking about social democracy; I support that and believe that Russia lacks social democracy” (August 13, 2007, in an interview with Interfax). On Russia’s place in the world “The days of Russia as a banana republic are over, and Shell suffered from its own arrogance because it failed to grasp the changes that had taken place in time” (September 7, 2007, at a meeting with American investors). About himself “I understand that right now I have more enemies than friends” (August 31, 2005, in an interview with Gazeta.ru).
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