OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 January 2009 was announced, that JSC Sitronics the leading supplier of solutions in sphere of telecommunications, an information technology and microelectronics in Russia and the CIS countries, was included into the list of backbone firms of Russia having strategic value. This decision was made by the Governmental Commission on rise of stability of development of the Russian economy. In total the given list included 295 leading enterprises of the country.

The main criteria for inclusion in the given list were gain size (more than 15 bil rbl.), quantity of personnell (not less than 4000 persons), backbone value of firm and the size of its tax payments.

For maintenance of stability of the companies which have entered the list, the Government of the Russian Federation will use various tools, including credit tools, allocation of the state guarantees, sponsorship of interest rates, production inclusion in the state order, carrying out of a customs-tariff policy etc.

According to data provided by RA "Expert" - JSC SITRONICS is the largest high tech company in Russia on level of capitalisation and enters into a rating of 25 largest Russian transnational companies according to the eresearch made by Moscow business school "Skolkovo".

"SITRONICS Microelectronic Solutions" - a business steam of SITRONICS is the largest Russian manufacturer of microelectronics on all main metrics: to technological level, a volume of output and sales, to export deliveries.

The complete list of the backbone organisations is accessible on a site of the Government of the Russian Federation.