Federal Antimonopoly Service
Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sharply criticized Zyuzin for reduced export prices (claiming they stood at half the domestic prices) at a steel industry meeting which discussed the high domestic prices of coal and other raw materials on July 24, 2008. Zyuzin claimed that he was indisposed to excuse himself from the meeting, and Putin promised to call “doctors” for him, personified by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and criminal investigators. This was a “horrendous blow” to Zyuzin according to "Forbes".