In Tune

To survive aluminium wars, mettle was needed

It is hardly surprising that Roman Abramovich may have sought 'protection' when he ventured into post-Soviet business world

Russians step up fight to oust TNK-BP chief

BP's Russian joint venture partners have called an extraordinary board meeting aimed at sacking chief executive

TNK-BP oligarchs to call for chief’s scalp

BP’s joint venture partners cite 'repeated infringements by Mr Dudley of Russian employment, migration and tax laws'

TNK-BP staff secure visas to stay in Russia

Chief executive, Bob Dudley, wins right to remain in the country following threats TNK-BP staff would be driven out

Leaders set for talks to resolve TNK-BP row

Gordon Brown is expected to raise the TNK-BP dispute when he meets the new Russian leader at the G8 summit in Japan

Moscow is prepared to force BP chiefs out

Doubts over BP’s future in Russia escalated after authorities in Moscow refused half the work permits requested by TNK-BP

Mandelson warns shareholders on TNK-BP row

European Trade Commissioner accuses Russians with a stake in the oil joint venture of menacing behaviour at EU-Russia summit

TNK-BP dispute triggered by Iraq oil project row

New accusations against UK oil group by consortium representing four Russian oligarchs who control 50 per cent of TNK-BP

TNK-BP clash forced into open after Iraq row

Stan Polovets, chief of AAR which owns half of TNK-BP, says BP is a heavy-handed partner out to pursue its own agenda

Russians revolt as BP denies Kremlin link

BP has denied conspiring with the Kremlin to force its joint venture partners in TNK-BP to sell their stake to Gazprom

TNK-BP: Robert Dudley and the oligarchs

A guide to three Russian co-owners of TNK-BP who are calling for the resignation of chief executive, Robert Dudley

Lotte looks to China and shells out €100m for Guylian

The move by the Korean-Japanese giant, thought to be eyeing China's middle class, could reshape the chocolate market

BP's Russian partners turn to insults

Oligarch, Mikhail Fridman, has accused the British oil giant of arrogance and mismanaging the TNK-BP joint venture

BP chairman compared to Goebbels in TNK row

Russian oligarch likens BP chairman, Peter Sutherland, to the notorious Nazi propaganda chief in the fight over TNK-BP

G8 ministers dodge threat from rising prices

Finance ministers from the UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the US meet for two days in Osaka

BP condemns Kremlin as dispute worsens

Chairman Peter Sutherland said the Russian Government's failure to intervene was like the 'corporate raiding' of the Nineties

TNK: the four oligarch shareholders

TNK-BP conflict deepens as Russians plan to sue

Legal challenge to strip BP-nominated directors of their powers in TNK-BP raises doubts over company's future in Russia

Oligarchs seek stronger hand before sale

The struggle for control of TNK-BP matters because of the amount of oil that Russia contributes to our daily global diet of crude

Warm sense of Russian security

After months of raids and rows Gazprom has said it would be interested in a stake in the troubled TNK-BP venture