Anglo-Russian oil company TNK-BP has come in for mounting criticism from senior officials within the Kremlin over its performance, but chief executive Robert Dudley remains defiantly bullish about the oil producer's prospects in Russia.
Dudley, who turned 51 in September, took the helm of TNK-BP in mid-2003 after UK supermajor BP secured 50% of TNK shares in exchange for about $7.7