Big Oil to attend Russia's top investment forum
Oil executives are showing up for the second year running despite political tensions, Western sanctions
Moscow
SOME of the world's most powerful oil executives will attend Russia's top investment show this week, once again helping the organisers shrug off a meagre turnout from other leading Western industrialists and bankers.
Many CEOs and chairmen from major US and European firms withdrew from last year's St Petersburg International Economic Forum because of tensions tied to Russia's annexation of Crimea and a separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
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