President-elect Donald Trump has tapped ExxonMobil CEO and administrator Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, he affirmed early Tuesday.
Tillerson's designation as Washington's best representative and the essential channel between the United States and outside governments has drawn feedback from those stressed over his associations with Russian President Vladimir Putin .
The photographs beneath delineate the advancement of Tillerson's association with Putin, starting after Exxon hit an arrangement with Russian state-claimed oil mammoth Rosneft in 1999 and finishing with Putin granting Tillerson Russia's Order of Friendship decoration in 2013.