Fathers, Sons, and Russian Power Games

摘要

In early April, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that top government officials-many of them allies of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin-had to relinquish their board seats at Russia's state-controlled companies. It seemed like a shrewd way to improve corporate governance in one stroke. Putin, the former President and possible candidate for the presidency in 2012, said nothing in public about the order, which the Prime Minister has to carry out.