In a January 29 article in the Financial Times by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and  Gillian Teft from Davos, Switzerland and John Thornhill and Catherine Belton from Moscow the following is explained:

What refreshing candor!  It is about time these overpaid banking disaster failures were told the truth about their failed policies and performances!

The article continues:

"Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, and Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, used the world economic forum in Davos to argue that the two rising powers must play a bigger role in a new economic order.