investors running scared as uncertainty reigns over Russia's political future

[OhYesIdid]

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2011/07/201171784239407177.html


Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has called on business leaders this week to decide whether they support him for a second term or want Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president, back in the Kremlin.

With eight months to go until a presidential election is held, Russia still does not know who will stand for the country's highest office.
So far both Medvedev and Putin are seen as contenders. But neither has made any official announcement, and the uncertainty may be affecting the country's economy.
Are investors running scared over the country's political future?
Inside Story, with presenter Hazem Sika, discusses with guests: Alexander Nekrassov, a former Kremlin advisor; James Moore Junior, a former US assistant secretary of commerce for trade development; and Dimitry Babich, a political analyst with Russia Profile magazine.

[jake williams]

It's really interesting how business seems to be just openly deciding who is going to be president.

[Ocean Seal]

" Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has called on business leaders this week to decide whether they support him for a second term or want Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president, back in the Kremlin."

So this voting thing.... about that.

[Delenda Carthago]

It's really interesting how business seems to be just openly deciding who is going to be president.

yes. its called capitalism.

[Reznov]

It's really interesting how business seems to be just openly deciding who is going to be president.

Separation of religion and State, but nothing about separation of Private business interests.

[jake williams]

yes. its called capitalism.
Relatively rarely do business people make a show of it, and put the news out. Of course they do control the state, but rarely so openly and blatantly.

[MarxSchmarx]

I guess old politburo habits die hard.

It's probably the same crowd that enriched themselves during the soviet union who did exactly the same after the fall who are going to be holding a ballot in the coming weeks on the next General Secre --- I mean "president".

[Barry]

Interesng how even their own parties arent being hugely involved instead just tje old guard who became the capitalist elite. Funny how the master and protege are on the way towards a conflict> Good old basic law of capitalist competition always leads to divisions.