Yukos to Get New Chairman

Yukos shareholders offered Tuesday Viktor Gerashchenko, a former worker of Russia?s Central bank, to become a chairman of the board.
The nominees will be presented at a general shareholders meeting for approval in June.
"Yukos shareholders invited me onto the board of directors and I accepted," Interfax news agency quoted Mr. Gerashchenko as saying.
Mr. Gerashchenko is a deputy in Parliament representing Rodina, a nationalist bloc that came in the last parliamentary elections in part on a campaign demanding higher taxes from big Russian companies like Yukos. He said that he would resign from Parliament if he was elected at the company's general meeting in June.
Simon Kukes, Yukos chief executive, would continue in that role, but not as chairman.