VLADIVOSTOK. March 2. VOSTOK-MEDIA – Residents of St. Petersburg lead in the polls – TOP-25 the most successful businesswomen. The wife of Russian President Svetlana Medvedeva, chairman of a school board of the program ‘spiritual-ethical culture of oncoming generation of Russia’ heads the list. Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg took the second place. Liudmila Verbitskaya, head of the St. Petersburg State University and vice-chairman of the Science Council under the President of the Russian Federation came in a good third.
The fourth and the fifth place of the TOP-25 took Olga Belyavtseva, stockholder of JSC ‘Progress’ (PepsiCo) and Olga Uskova, President of the National Association for Innovation and Development of Information Technologies and Chief-executive of Cognitive Technology Co.
Top ten also includes Tatyana Paromonova, chairman of board of directors of ‘Transcreditbank’, Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Economic Development and Commerce of the Russian Federation.