Rosneft continues to lose staff

Rosneft continues to lose staff
Alexander Putilov's team is leaving
As Kommersant-Daily already reported, last week, at the suggestion of the president of Rosneft, the company's first vice president, Rair Simonyan, resigned. At the same time, it was suggested that Simonyan’s departure was only the beginning of larger personnel changes at the oil company. And then it became known that a group of top managers of Rosneft had resigned.

Yuri Bespalov, who recently took over as president of the company, was suspected of intending to oust the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft, Alexander Putilov, from the company. Apparently, the suspicion was not in vain.
At the suggestion of Bespalov and his deputies, the vice-president of the company, Vladimir Nikishin, who oversaw the company’s implementation of the Sakhalin-1 project worth about $13 billion, the chief accountant of Rosneft Raisa Bulkina, her deputy Margarita Molchanova, the director of the public relations department, resigned. Vladimir Tumarkin and head of the informatization department Alexey Vikhly. These managers were considered members of Putilov's team.
A few days ago, the disgraced chairman of the company’s board of directors announced that an extraordinary meeting of the board of directors was scheduled for July 28, at which the issue of personnel policy at Rosneft would be discussed. However, this meeting, most likely, will not change anything fundamentally: Alexander Putilov will probably not be able to assemble a new team of loyal people at Rosneft.

MAXIM B-PUCCHOV

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 113 dated July 18, 1997, p. 8