Publications

TNK-BP Fuels Beeline

Mikhail Slobodin, former vice-president of TNK-BP who was appointed CEO of VimpelCom in early September initiated a number of management changes in his new company. On one of the key positions, Executive Vice President, CFO was appointed Nikolai Ivanov, who also worked in TNK-BP until April 2013. This is the first person from Slobodin’s team who followed him to VimpelCom.

Michael Matovnikov Moves to Sberbank

Mikhail Matovnikov, former CEO of Interfax-CEA moves to work in Sberbank. The former member of the Supervisory Board of the State Bank will be in charge of analyzing its work.

Aeroflot Hand-Picks CEOs for DOBROLET and Aurora

Vitaly Saveliev, CEO Aeroflot reports that the main candidate for the post of Head of the newly created low-cost carrier is Vladimir Gorbunov, former CEO of the Russian low-coster Avianova. Mr Saveliev announced about this on the sidelines of an investment forum, held in Sochi. According to him, Mr Gorbunov is now his adviser.

Manpower Fight

The war for talent is being waged. At the same time, according to Jacobson Partners, despite the gradual development of the segment in the post-crisis period of economic recovery, the level of the labor force engaged in commercial transportation, has not yet reached that of 2008. Thus, according to the Federal State Statistics Service, we can see that the downward trend in the labor force is still present, in particular, in haulage companies: 333,400 people in 2008; 299,600 in 2010; 299,100 in 2012.

Live Queue

In 2013, the Central Bank revoked licenses of 32 Russian banks. Dmitry Akopov, CEO of recruitment consulting company Jacobson Partners believes that the dismissal of a large number of bank employees is only beginning to affect the Russian labor market.