Oleg Deripaska is a man who likes to take control. As two journalists struggle to turn off a noisy overhead projector in an FT conference room, Russia's one-time richest man silently rises from his seat and with a few clicks of a button silences the machine. Mission accomplished, the oligarch turns his attention to the high level of the river Thames outside the London head office of the FT - reason for nervousness, he quips, suggesting that with global warming taking hold "we'll soon be growing bananas in Siberia.
Financial Times
18.12.2009
