you guys all crack me up; there's old news; and today i felt an irresistible urge to share (Bob Dudley should be a familiar name around here; after all we are all educated)
July 27, 2008 -- BP's Russian boss Bob Dudley goes into hiding
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle4407496.ece
(prob. almost no one here will know what it meant or means in (post)-soviet russian when you are signalled that you are no longer welcome.)
ps: last time i checked 40% of BP is hold by american investors; IMO some here are quite naive.