Demanding documents connected to a tax case in Kazakh courts, the troops brandished their weapons to remove AES employees and seize the mine's administration building, according to internal AES e-mails.

FORBES: Power Putsch

That's what happened to Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people )'s oil well on Russia's Sakhalin Island and to aes' power plants in Kazakhstan.

FORBES: Babble Rouser