Keith C. Smith: No one wanted Mažeikių Nafta and Russians tried to take it for free

The Lithuania Tribune spoke to former American Ambassador to Lithuania Keith C. Smith. It was during his term in 1999 that Lithuania’s major oil refinery, Mažeikių Nafta, was sold to American company Williams, a deal that went terribly sour several years later. We asked the ambassador what, if it had been up to him, he would have done with Mažeikių Nafta.