Duma confirms Gryzlov proposes candidates for directors in JS

MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) -- State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov has
sent a letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, proposing candidates for
positions of chairmen of the boards of directors in open joint stock
companies.
The Duma faction of the United Russia party, which is headed by
Gryzlov, confirmed this to Itar-Tass.
His letter mentions specifically RusHydro, Inter RAO UES, FSK UES, and
MRSK (IDGC) Holding.
"The proposed candidates are from United Russia's and the president's
personnel reserve. If these candidatures are accepted, those of them who
are State Duma deputies will have to resign before the end of their
terms," a United Russia official said.
The business daily Vedomosti said earlier that Gryzlov had proposed
that Vice Prime Minister Igor Sechin and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko be
replaced as chairmen of the boards of directors in the abovementioned
companies by four United Russia members.
These include Vladimir Pekhtin, first deputy chairman of the United
Russia faction in the Duma; former Kaliningrad region Governor Georgy
Boos; chairman State Duma Committee on Environmental Management Yevgeny
Tugolukov; and Vladimir Golovnev, first deputy chairman of the Duma
Committee on Economic Policy and Delovaya Rossia president.
President Dmitry Medvedev earlier ordered the government to name
candidates to the boards of directors in state-owned companies by June 1.
Medvedev's order to remove government officials from the boards of
directors of state-owned companies will be implemented in strict
compliance with law and corporate regulations, Shmatko said earlier.
"The government of the Russian Federation will shortly state its
position on the deadlines and requirements to be met during the fulfilment
of the presidential order," he added.
Shmatko is a member of the boards of directors in Gazprom, Transneft,
and RusHydro.
The Russian government has yet to decide who of its representatives
will leave the boards of directors in state-owned companies.
Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina said energy,
transport and financial companies were at the top of the list.
She stressed that a vice-prime minister or minister cannot be on the
board of directors in companies that operate in the same sector they
supervise.
"Officials who adopt acts and regulate the rules of the game in this
field" will be removed from the boards of directors "in order to avoid
conflicts of interests" Nabiullina said.
"We will see which sectors have this, but this certainly is the case
in the energy, transportation and financial sectors," she said.
At a meeting of the commission on economic modernisation on March 30,
Medvedev told vice-prime ministers and ministers not to bear a grudge when
they are removed from the boards of directors of companies in the near
future.