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The authors make an attempt at analyzing the corporate governance system in Russia. At the outset, they explain the notion and nature of corporate governance and they present national systems of supervision in developed countries, i.e. in the United States, Germany and Japan. In the authors' view, the form of the corporate governance system in the Russian economy was determined by the privatization of state enterprises in 1990s. Other parts of the paper provide a description of basic institutions and corporate governance mechanisms within the Russian Federation.