Julian Lee, Columnist

Putin’s New Weapon of Mass Disruption: Kazakh Oil

The threat to shut down an export terminal is a clear warning to Europe.

Upping the ante

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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This is a correction to article that was originally published on July 10, 2022, 6:00 AM GMT.

In compliance with the order of the Arbitration Court of the city of Moscow (the "Court") from January 16, 2023, Bloomberg is obliged to publish a correction to retract the following information published on July 10, 2022, and available at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-10/vladimir-putin-s-new-weapon-of-mass-disruption-kazakh-oil in the article titled “Putin’s New Weapon of Mass Disruption: Kazakh Oil": "…the hounding of TNK-BP and its foreign executives in 2008, prior to the oil venture’s eventual takeover by state-backed Rosneft PJSC".