Institutions can matter less than the people who run them. Investors in Russia should be worried about the sacking of Alexei Kudrin, the finance minister, by a humiliated president Dmitry Medvedev. The latter has been pushed out of next year’s presidential race by Vladimir Putin. Mr Kudrin was the investor’s friend – and investors need friends in Russia. His dismissal leaves a vacuum in economic and fiscal policy that will not be filled by Mr Putin’s return to the Kremlin.
机构的重要性有时还不如执掌它们的人。受到羞辱的俄罗斯总统德米特里•梅德韦杰夫(Dmitry Medvedev)撤免了财长阿列克谢•库德林(Alexei Kudrin),俄罗斯投资者应该对此感到担心。梅德韦杰夫本人则已被弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)排挤出了明年的总统竞选。库德林是投资者的朋友——在俄罗斯,投资者需要朋友。他的去职给manbetx20客户端下载 和财政政策留下了真空,一个普京重返克里姆林宫所无法填补的真空。