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Igor Sechin: the epitome of power in Putin’s Russia

By Jasper Jolly

05 Mar 2022 · 3 min read

Igor Sechin knows better than most that the course of true love never did run smooth. Amore Vero, a yacht linked to the head of the state oil company Rosneft, once bore the name St Princess Olga, apparently in honour of Olga Rozhkova, his second wife.

After the couple split, around 2017, according to independent Russian media, the boat was renamed.

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