OREANDA-NEWS. Kommersant newspaper published a rating of Russia's best managers on 21 September, 2007, which is a joint project of the Association of Russian Managers and the newspaper. The Top-100 Russian Managers has revealed the nation's most competent managers, leaders in their industries and functional areas for eight years now.

The 2007 rating includes IES-Holding representatives: the company's president Mikhail Slobodin, senior vice president for economics and finance Sergei Drozhzhin, and head of the strategic communications directorate Anna Chin-Go-pin.

Thus, IES-Holding president Mikhail Slobodin is among the three leaders of the rating of top managers in the power industry. The second place in this rating went to Vyacheslav Sinyugin, chairman of the management board of Federal Hydropower Generating Company, and the first place went to Mosenergo director general Anatoly Kopsov.

Sergei Drozhzhin is rated among chief financial officers in the fuel and energy sector. Anna Chin-Go-pin represents the Holding Company in the rating of directors for public and corporate relations in the fuel and energy sector.

According to Kommersant, the methodology of the rating is based on the principle "the best elect the best": scores are assigned by representatives of the business community who have real knowledge of the achievements, professional reputation and personal qualities of the candidate under review.

Sergei Litovchenko, executive director of the Association of Russian Managers, commented on the results of the conducted study as follows: "The period of the "wild 1990s" and easy money has gone. Owners now count every kopeck and managers have to act accordingly. This is manifested almost everywhere: from the procurement of cheaper pens to the deployment of state-of-the-art Western solutions in management.

The resulting tables of the eighth release of the Top-1000 Russian Managers rating indirectly confirm this trend. They are topped by top managers of companies which actively use innovations in their activity. After all, for example, improved time management allows competently allocating personnel's business hours and avoiding recruiting new employees. The logic of business itself prompts top managers not an extensive, but an intensive path for development."