OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2011. S.Krjukov, Chairman of the Board of RBD during his business trip to Kiev presented SME Lending Support Programs in the head office of Prominvestbank. He also met with Ukraine government officials. Russian-Ukrainian partnership and best SME lending practices were focal points of the negotiations, reported the press-centre of RBD.

Further the Head of RBD had working meetings with Anatoly Kinakh, Head of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, member of the Ukrainian parliament and Leonid Kozachenko, Head of the Council of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

S.Krjukov met with Tatiana Sysoeva, Director of Financial Policy Department of the Finance Ministry of Ukraine and reported on RBD’s activities to develop non-trade and innovative SMEs, to promote competitiveness and modernization of the Russian economy.

In Verhovnaya Rada of Ukraine the RBD CEO met with Ksenia Lyapina, Deputy Head of the Parliamentarian Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship. Sergey Krjukov accentuated on the role of the state SME lending programs that support small and medium-sized enterprises facing post-crisis challenges.