The awarding ceremony of the Delovoy Kvartal magazine’s Person of the Year Prize took place in Yekaterinburg recently. The Main Industrialist of the Year Prize went to Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky. SKB-Bank’s Chairman of the Supervisory Board Vladimir Pukhov was declared the Banker of the Year, and Sinara Development’s Director-General Timur Ufimtsev was declared the Main Developer of the Year, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. Mikhail Khodorovsky said Yekaterinburg made a very impressive leap forward over the last few years, which was possible, among other factors,

The 30,000 workers of Sberbank that are to be made redundant soon will actually not be fired, they will be transferred to other positions, head of Russia’s largest bank German Gref told Komsomolskaya Pravda in an interview on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. ‘Considerably fewer workers are needed now due to increased productivity of labor. However, we have no intention of firing them. This people’s potential is to be evaluated, and new jobs will be offered for them. Our business keeps expanding every day,’ he said. Gref actually said earlier that 30,000 people would be laid off following the

Alexander Petrov is leaving his office as the Director-General of the cosmetics manufacturer Concern Kalina. The company’s BOD decided to have his authority terminated at 11:59 PM on December 6, 2011. The Board of Directors also approved of the terms of the labor contract with the new Director-General and the wording of the order regarding the employment of the new DG. The name of the new executive has not been announced yet. The only thing that is certain is that he has not worked at Kalina before.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service considered the application of Unilever Rus regarding the purchase of a 100% voting shareholding in Concern Kalina that was submitted on October 21, 2011. The application was submitted in accordance with Article 28 of the Competition Protection Act. The Service came to the following conclusion: ‘The data and the documents submitted alongside the application meet the requirements set by Article 32 (part 5) of the Competition Protection Act. Based on Article 33 (part2, paragraph 1) of the Competition Protection Act, Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service