Russia's Raid On BP Raises Energy Questions - by Heidi Brown and Christopher Helman
A raid on the offices of BP and its Russian partner TNK-BP in Moscow has heightened concerns that the Kremlin is set to launch a new round of efforts to wrest control of Russian oil fields from private hands. In tandem with the raid on Wednesday, authorities took into custody two brothers, Alexander and Ilya Zaslavsky on charges of industrial espionage and for "illegally gathering secret commercial information for the benefit of several foreign oil and gas companies, in order to give them advantages over Russian competitors."
The brothers, who are American citizens, reportedly were released on Friday but told not to leave the country.
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