These are more notional thanreal, asthe farcicalsecondshowtrialofMikhailKhodorkovsky, a formeroil boss and a Putinrival, which is taking place onMr Medvedev'swatch, demonstrates.
The company also became Europe's largest oil company by market capitalization on his watch, as major rival BP PLC struggled to recover after its massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.