Zubkov not leaving Gazprom board before Oct 1 - Dvorkovich
MOSCOW. Aug 29 (Interfax) - First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will not be leaving the board of directors at Gazprom before October 1, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich has told the press.
"There will be no departure before October 1. This is a very specific matter that is also being considered by the president," Dvorkovich said.
"No public company needs it [shuffling directors around], and the decision will be made based on the company's interests," he said.
Complications have cropped up during the course of the fulfillment of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's instruction that state officials leave the boards of directors at state-owned companies, Dvorkovich said. "There are major public companies were the timeframe for conducting similar procedures is large. And there are other issues that have come up in the process of implementing the president's orders. This concerns company where access is needed to completely secret information, and where it is hard to find independent directors. The question, considering the current political cycle, is the already understood plans of certain people to leave the government, there is no idea about replacing boards of directors, and there is no need to rush now," he said.