Subject to confirmation by parliament, the new prime minister will be Yuri Yekhanurov, a technocrat who has signalled a less aggressiveattitude to past privatisations and a more conciliatory one to Russia sensible, given that a rise in Russian gas prices could be disastrous.
They revealed an unwillingness to share data which broke the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's Freedom of Information act, an aggressiveattitude to the peer review of papers by opponents and an apparent willingness to hedge science in the face of politics.