Russia and other ex-Soviet states on Thursday backed Grigory Marchenko, head of Kazakhstan’s central bank, to run the International Monetary Fund following Wednesday’s resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A Reuters poll of about 60 economists from all over the world found that France’s Christine Lagarde was the clear front-runner to succeed Strauss-Kahn. Moscow-trained economist Marchenko, 51, is highly regarded in the region as an astute financial technocrat. He was […]