Revolt forces UES to suspend asset sales

Russia

       
Illarionov: UES’s share price collapse
is a national disgrace that has lost
the state $3 billion

Anatoly Chubais, the CEO of Russian utilities monopoly United Energy Systems (UES), bowed to pressure from an odd alliance of minority shareholders and the Kremlin by calling a moratorium on UES asset sales at the end of last month.

Chubais has had to face down a rising tide of criticism as UES share prices took a beating over the past six months.

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