Gazprom Miller rising

摘要

Reform in Russia has been bogged down this year. But the latest Kremlin-backed management putsch at Gazprom, the country's largest company, has made things look different Under its outgoing boss, Rem Vyakhirev, Gazprom was more like a badty run country than a publicly traded energy company; it had its own intelligence service, aircraft, hotels, media outlets, even a yacht club. Under the noses of its western auditors, billionsof dollars of assets and cash leaked to companies whose ownership was at best murky.