Evans To Go To Work For Putin?

According to Business Week Online, former Commerce Secretary, former Finance Chair of the Bush For President Committee, and close friend of the President, Don Evans has been offered a post as Chairman of the state-run Russian oil company.

Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans has been offered the post of board chairman at a state-run oil company by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Kommersant business daily reported that the offer to chair Rosneft was made last week while Evans was visiting Moscow. Evans is considered a close friend of U.S. President George W. Bush.

A spokesman at Rosneft's Moscow headquarters Tuesday declined to comment.