Context: Longtime friend of Putin, worked with him in the GDR. For 13 years he headed Transneft. Person acting as the sole executive body (President) of PJSC Transneft; Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC Transneft long-time Putin associate who served with Putin in the Soviet Union’s Committee for State Security (KGB) as agents in Dresden, East Germany, in the 1980s. Tokarev is also the president of one of Russia’s most important companies, Transneft, a state-owned pipeline company that is responsible for transporting 90 percent of oil extracted in Russia