Gref, German

President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia since November 2007. Previously - Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation (2000-2007), First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation (1998-2000), Vice-Governor - Chairman of the Committee for City Property Management of the Administration of St. Petersburg (1997-1998), Deputy Chairman - Director Department of Real Estate, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for City Property Management of the Administration of St. Petersburg (1994-1997). Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research, member of the Board of Directors of NK OJSC Lukoil.

German Oskarovich Gref was born on February 8, 1964 in the village of Panfilovo, Pavlodar region of the Kazakh SSR, where his parents - ethnic Germans - were exiled in 1941 from the Donbass. According to legend, Gref’s ancestors settled in Russia less than a hundred years ago: in 1913, his grandfather came to St. Petersburg to teach Greek philosophy. According to other sources, his German ancestors moved to Russia and settled in St. Petersburg during the time of Peter the Great. The Gref family communicated in both Russian and German. According to media reports, Gref later took part in the return of exiled Germans to Russia - with his assistance, the entire German village of Strelna was built near St. Petersburg (a number of publications pointed to numerous violations of the law in connection with the implementation of this project).

After graduating from school, Gref entered the Faculty of International Economic Relations at MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but after the first year he was expelled from the university. According to other sources, after school, Gref and his first wife Elena Velikanova entered Omsk State University, but failed the exams. According to the official biography, in 1981-1982 Gref worked as a legal consultant for the district agricultural administration of the Irtysh district of the Pavlodar region.

From 1982 to 1984, Gref served in the Armed Forces, in special forces units of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, stationed in the city of Chapaevsk, Kuibyshev (now Samara) region (military unit 3434). The media noted in 2005 that among members of the Russian government, Gref is almost the only one who completed military service in the army. Economist Mikhail Delyagin told reporters of the Sobesednik newspaper: “They say in the White House about Gref’s strong-willed qualities: well, whatever you want, the man went through prison special forces.” The publication indicated that Defense Ministry employees unofficially referred to Gref’s military specialty as a sniper. Referring to the words of veterans of the internal troops, the "Interlocutor" pointed out that in 1982-1984, service in these troops meant escorting prisoners, searching for fugitives, and suppressing prison riots. In November 2005, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta published information that Gref, together with the Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel General Nikolai Rogozhkin, visited the “semi-secret” special forces center for training internal troops personnel for operations in mountainous and wooded areas in Krasnodar edge .

According to a number of media reports, Gref, having completed military service without exams, was enrolled in the workers' faculty of Omsk State University. In 1984, Gref entered the Faculty of Law, where he became a Komsomol organizer and head of the student operational squad (other publications wrote that from 1984 to 1985 he studied at the preparatory department of the university). The dean of the Law Faculty of Omsk State University in those years was Sergei Baburin (in the future - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation). The media also published information about Gref’s classmates: in particular, it was alleged that the chairman of the St. Petersburg Property Management Committee, Igor Metelsky, is one of Gref’s student friends.

In 1990, Gref graduated from the university, according to some media reports, with honors, receiving a diploma in jurisprudence, after which he taught for some time at Omsk State University. In the same 1990, Gref moved to Leningrad, where, according to Sobesednik, on Baburin’s recommendation he entered graduate school. In 1993 (according to other sources - in 1994) he graduated from graduate school at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University. Other information was also published: a number of teachers claimed that Gref did not study in graduate school, while others reported that he studied, but did not defend his dissertation. The head of the press service of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, Victoria Nasledova, when asked about Gref by Interlocutor journalists, answered: “There is no such person on the lists of defended graduate students.” The press called Gref’s supervisor in graduate school Anatoly Sobchak.

According to a number of media reports, in 1990 Gref met the future President of Russia Vladimir Putin - at Leningrad University, Putin, who returned from a business trip to Germany, worked as Sobchak’s deputy, with whom Gref was writing his dissertation. Most publications noted that in 1990, Putin was indeed Sobchak’s adviser, but as the chairman of the Leningrad City Council, while Sobchak worked at the university in the department of civil law before his election to the Leningrad City Council (Putin supervised the university through the KGB). According to other sources, Gref met Putin in 1991-1992, when he already held a post in the administration of the Petrodvortsovy district of St. Petersburg. A number of media outlets, citing some St. Petersburg officials, reported that subsequently, in 1996, Gref was one of the few who continued to communicate with Putin and even helped him after he lost his post as vice-mayor of St. Petersburg.

From 1991 to 1992, Gref was a legal consultant to the economic development and property committee of the administration of the Petrodvortsovy district of St. Petersburg, and from March 1992 to October 1994, he headed the property management committee of the same district. The media reported that Sobchak introduced him to the Peterhof administration. It was also indicated that the head of the administration of the Petrodvortsovo district at that time was Alexey Ignatenko (later he worked as the head of the city KUGI department and was a subordinate of Gref).

In October 1994, Gref was appointed director of the real estate department of the State Property Management Committee (Kugi) of St. Petersburg, deputy chairman of the committee, ,. Within the walls of the administration of St. Petersburg, German Gref met Alexei Kudrin, Dmitry Kozak, Dmitry Medvedev, who later occupied key positions in the country's leadership. According to a number of media reports, in February 1997, Gref became one of the “ideologists” of housing and communal reform in St. Petersburg. By decision of the Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev, it was KUGI that was appointed the department responsible for carrying out the reform, during which there was a twofold increase in rent in the absence of any improvement in service. A number of publications indicated that Gref failed in reforming the St. Petersburg housing and communal services.

In July 1997, Gref became first deputy chairman of KUGI. On August 18, 1997, he was appointed acting chairman of the committee (on that day, the chairman of KUGI, Mikhail Manevich, was killed). Subsequently, a number of media outlets, without drawing a connection between Gref and this crime, wrote that the reasons for Manevich’s “sudden death” should be sought “in the mechanisms of St. Petersburg privatization.” On September 2, 1997, Gref became vice-governor - chairman of the KUGI of St. Petersburg. Governor Yakovlev offered him this post. At his first briefing as head of the St. Petersburg KUGI, Gref said that he considers himself “a man of Yakovlev, Chubais and Nemtsov at the same time.” Literaturnaya Gazeta wrote in 2001 that Gref is characterized by “political versatility,” which “can be very useful in terms of career growth” (as an example, the publication cited the fact that, despite his closeness with the first St. Petersburg mayor Sobchak, Gref worked well with the new governor Yakovlev). In 2005, the media, calling Gref “the champion of resignation rumors,” wrote that Gref retained the high posts of deputy minister and minister of economy at a time when the government was replaced by five prime ministers.

The media wrote that during his leadership of KUGI, Gref was accused of abuse of official position, in particular, of the illegal transfer of the Hay market for a bribe (the case was closed after the murder of the only witness), the illegal privatization of the Gorchakov Palace (the case was also closed). , however, these publications had no consequences. In 2000, the French newspaper Le Monde published information that from 1997 to 2000, Gref, together with Putin, were consultants and members of the advisory board of the German real estate company SPAG (St. Petersburg Immobilien und Beteiligungs AG), created on the initiative of the northern mayor's office. capital Cities. The mayor's office, according to the publication, was a co-owner of this enterprise. On May 13, 2000, the head of SPAG, lawyer and brother of Liechtenstein's Minister of Economy, Rudolf Ritter, was arrested in Vaduz on suspicion of money laundering and links to organized crime. A report by the German secret service BND alleged that Russian criminal elements were transferring funds through the Romanian bank IRB for the purpose of purchasing real estate in Russia. This, according to them, brought profit to Ritter, the main shareholder of SPAG (real estate was sold through this company). The Russian presidential administration denied any connection between Putin and SPAG. SPAG director Markus Rese, in turn, did not refute the fact that Gref and Putin worked for the company, but argued that it was an “unpaid position, a kind of patronage.”

In September 1997, Gref became a member of the board of directors of JSC Lenenergo. In January 1998, he was introduced to the board of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation. In April 1998, Gref joined the board of directors of OJSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg, and in June of the same year, he joined the board of directors of OJSC Petersburg - Channel 5.

On August 12, 1998, Gref was appointed first deputy minister of state property of the Russian Federation. According to a number of media reports, Gref came to Moscow on the recommendation of Anatoly Chubais. By resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 30, 1998 and January 21, 1999, Gref was included in the Coordination Council on Economic Issues of Regional Policy of Russia and the board of representatives of the Russian Federation at Svyazinvest OJSC. On April 28, 1999, he was appointed head of the government commission to audit the activities of the Russian Federal Service for Insolvency and Financial Recovery (FSDN). At the same time, he joined the board of directors of Svyazinvest JSC.

On May 10, 1999, in accordance with the order of the Russian government, Gref joined the board of state representatives at the Russian State Insurance Company (Rosgosstrakh). On June 4 of the same year, he joined the board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM), where he worked until September 2000. On June 26, 1999, Gref was elected to the board of directors of Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, and on August 26, as a representative of the state, he was included in the board of directors of Gazprom. In September 1999, Gref became a member of the board of state representatives at Transneft OJSC. In the same year, Gref was elected chairman of the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport OJSC.

In December 1999, Gref was elected chairman of the supervisory board of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation. According to Delyagin’s memoirs, Gref was the only one who agreed to lead him - “the place is not a good one, they don’t give bribes there.” A number of media outlets wrote that the country’s development program for the coming years, which was prepared by the TsSR headed by Gref, “outlined the main vector of development of the country’s economy - in the direction of its further liberalization.” Other publications, on the contrary, noted that everyone forgot about the “Gref program” immediately after its adoption. In addition, during the same period, Gref became part of Putin’s election headquarters and was among his authorized representatives on financial issues.

In 2001, Gref headed the commission for holding auctions for the sale of industrial quotas for catching (extraction) of aquatic biological resources, and also became a member of the commission on tariff regulation in federal railway transport. In January 2001, Gref was recommended for the post of chairman of the board of directors of Project Privatization Company OJSC, created by the Russian Federal Property Fund and the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation for the sale of 50 million shares (6.13 percent) of Lukoil OJSC on international stock markets. In April 2001, Gref was appointed as the government's official representative when the chambers of the Federal Assembly considered the draft Land Code. On April 28, 2001, Gref was appointed as a representative of the Russian Federation to vote at a meeting of shareholders at OAO Gazprom and was re-elected to the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia. In May 2001, Gref was appointed deputy chairman of the Russian Government Commission for coordinating the activities of federal executive authorities and state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the implementation of production sharing agreements and was re-elected to the board of directors of Aeroflot-RMA OJSC (since June 2001 - OJSC "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines"). In August 2001, he was also again elected chairman of the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport OJSC. In August 2001, Gref became a member of the government commission on structural reform of railway transport.

In January 2002, Gref became deputy chairman of the Russian Government Commission on Electric Power Industry Reform and joined the board of directors of JSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES). In 2002, Gref opposed plans to switch to 100 percent payment for housing and communal services by the population. He called for “to stop scaring the population with 100 percent payment,” since due to the plight of the majority of citizens, this task is “unnecessary and unrealizable.”

On October 21, 2003, Gref was elected chairman of the assessment committee created on the board of directors of Gazprom. In its report, RIA Novosti noted that the committee’s competence includes analysis and preparation of proposals to improve the assessment of the value of the property of Gazprom and its subsidiaries, conclusions on the feasibility of transactions with property, as well as recommendations for voting of representatives of the OJSC in the management bodies of subsidiaries and affiliates companies Subsequently, Gref was re-elected to this post several times.

On February 24, 2004, when the president dismissed the Kasyanov government, Gref became the acting minister of economic development and trade of the Russian Federation: Putin signed a decree “On the Government of the Russian Federation,” according to which the government of the Russian Federation was instructed to fulfill its duties until the formation of a new cabinet of ministers. On March 9, 2004, Gref was again appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Mikhail Fradkov became Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Izvestia wrote that by that time there was already a long-standing and mutual hostility between them. According to the publication, it originated in 2000, when the Ministry of Trade headed by Fradkov was abolished and transferred to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. During the period of Fradkov’s work in the Security Council and the tax police, his relations with the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade were also quite tense, but without aggravation. The most serious clash between them occurred in the second half of 2003 during one of Gref’s visits to Brussels, where Fradkov was Russia’s special representative to the EU. According to eyewitnesses, Gref then sharply reprimanded Fradkov for “bad work with the EU” in front of his subordinates. According to other sources, two high-ranking officials at Brussels airport began shouting at each other, without paying attention to witnesses. In 2005, Profile wrote that the ideological incompatibility of Fradkov and Gref (one is a Soviet bureaucrat, the other a convinced “marketeer”), aggravated by personal hostility, led to the fact that not a single government meeting was complete without a spat between the prime minister and the minister of economics . But, according to the publication, over the years the situation has changed, and the working relationship between them has become completely different than at the first stage.

According to media reports, Gref has repeatedly opposed the monopolization of the oil and gas sector of the economy. In an interview with the Kommersant newspaper in January 2005, Gref said that the state should transfer “any profit-generating activity into private hands,” and that it itself “should concentrate efforts on creating understandable rules of the game that are strictly followed by everyone.” He called the direct presence of the state in the oil sector “unjustified.” In particular, Gref was opposed to the nationalization of Yuganskneftegaz, a subsidiary of the Yukos Oil Company, but subsequently publicly approved the deal to acquire it. According to media reports, Gref changed his mind because the government decree obligated state representatives in joint-stock companies to vote in accordance with the directives and powers of attorney of the Ministry of Property of the Russian Federation.

Gref took part in the fate of the state company OJSC NK Rosneft, including in organizing the initial public offering of ordinary shares (IPO) among Russian and international investors in Russia and the UK in June 2006. At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade emphasized that more 70 percent of Rosneft shares will remain with the state.

Gref paid great attention to the Russian Regional Jet (RRJ) program, a joint project of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, the Ilyushin Aviation Complex and Boeing. The goal of the program was to create an aircraft that would meet the existing and future requirements of the Russian and international markets. During a press conference on November 2, 2005, Gref called this project one of the priorities for Russia and promised that the obligations of the Russian side would be fulfilled on time. According to him, the state was supposed to invest 8.6 billion rubles in the project. It was assumed that six aircraft should be produced by the end of 2007, and their serial production should begin in 2008.

In November 2005, Gref headed a commission that was involved in forming a list of projects applying for money from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation. The list of investment proposals to the government included projects for the construction of a complex of oil refineries in Tatarstan and a project for the development of the Lower Angara region, as well as a number of projects for the development of the country’s transport infrastructure: the construction of the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter in St. Petersburg, a section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway, a new exit the Minsk highway on the Moscow Ring Road and the railway to mineral deposits in the Chita region, as well as the construction of the Orlovsky tunnel under the Neva. It was planned to allocate 164 billion rubles for the implementation of these projects.

On July 27, 2006, Gref made a statement on the transfer of authority to the Federal Tax Service (FTS) to maintain a unified state automated information system for accounting for alcoholic beverages. He made this statement after a group of members of the Public Chamber addressed an open letter to the head of government, Mikhail Fradkov. In the letter, representatives of the Public Chamber asked the Prime Minister to deal with violations of the production and supply schedule of alcoholic beverages that arose due to a failure in the operation of the Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS), the development and maintenance of which was carried out by FSUE Atlas under the FSB of Russia.

Gref was a supporter of Russia's early entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has repeatedly stated that Russia could be admitted to the WTO by 2007. After representatives from Moscow and Washington again failed to agree on this issue during the G8 summit held in July 2006 in St. Petersburg, Gref sent a letter to US Trade Representative Susan Schwab. It indicated that in the event of further failure of negotiations on accession to the WTO, Russia will be forced to reconsider agreements on the import of meat from the United States, according to which quotas for the supply of poultry, beef and pork from this country were increased.

On June 26, 2006, Gref proposed to the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia to work out the idea of ​​creating a Power Engineering Center on the basis of the Power Machines (SM) concern. OJSC Power Machines, whose turnover in 2004 amounted to 639 million US dollars, was called by the media the leading Russian manufacturer of power equipment. Previously, the German concern Siemens expressed a desire to buy the OJSC, but the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) denied the right to purchase it under the pretext that the company carries out, among other things, military orders. Only after RAO UES of Russia acquired a controlling stake in Power Machines did Siemens receive a blocking stake in the enterprise. According to media reports, by the end of August 2006, the energy holding directly owned 22.43 percent of the company's shares and about another 30 percent was in trust management of RAO; 2.5 percent of the shares were concentrated under the jurisdiction of the St. Petersburg Generating Company. Analysts saw Gref's proposal as an attempt to convince the management of RAO to take Power Machines under its full control. The board of the energy holding, as stated in the issued communiqué, accepted the proposal of the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade for consideration.

In July-August 2006, Gref's name was mentioned in the press in connection with the process of approving the draft budget for 2007. The submission of the draft document for consideration by the government was postponed, as Gref’s department delayed the transfer of an updated forecast of government spending to the Ministry of Finance.

In December 2006, the Ministry of Economic Development approved the creation of special economic zones (SEZ) of a tourist type. Their residents will have to receive an income tax benefit (20 percent instead of 24 percent), will be able to avoid paying property and land taxes for five years, and the unified social tax will be paid at a rate of 14 percent instead of 26 percent (but only from annual salaries up to 280,000 rubles). In the 2007 budget, 1.1 billion rubles were allocated for the creation of tourist zone infrastructure, so it was planned to create two or three, maximum five SEZs of this type. After the meeting of the competition commission at the end of October, seven regions scored the most points: Altai Territory, Gorny Altai, Buryatia, Irkutsk Region, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, as well as the Kaliningrad Region. “It’s a difficult choice, you can’t throw anyone out,” Gref said at the decisive meeting of the commission and offered to support all applications. The commission agreed with him.

Describing Gref's personality, the media wrote that he has a reputation as a strong market leader and liberal who is ready to implement unpopular reforms. He, according to a number of publications, believes in his ability to change Russia for the better. At the same time, it was noted that Gref lacks the depth and consistency of economic knowledge (he does not have an economic education). He believes in the absolute intrinsic value of private property and the need for the state to withdraw as much as possible from the economy, and even state social programs, according to a number of publications, are an unnecessary burden in the eyes of the Minister of Economic Development. Gref does not accept anything that contradicts these principles, and it is absolutely impossible to convince him, since he does not like and cannot conduct a reasoned argument (it was even suggested that this was one of the main reasons for his hostility towards the former presidential adviser on economic issues Andrei Illarionov, known for his love of discussions).

The media associated Gref's weak economic preparation with the opinion expressed by a number of senior officials, according to which Gref allows Finance Minister Kudrin to “play on his own field.” As a result, departments that should balance each other are unable to work together. Speaking about the rivalry between Gref and Kudrin, a number of publications mentioned the supposed advantages of the Minister of Finance over the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. According to them, Gref’s personal services to Putin are more modest than those of Kudrin, who actively helped the future president find a job in Moscow after he left St. Petersburg in 1996. The media also wrote about alleged mutual hostility between the ministers. However, the FeldPochta newspaper published the words of Gref himself, refuting this opinion: “We can argue and conflict as much as we like, but in difficult times we are ready to come to each other’s aid.” It is known that in 2004 Kudrin was among those invited to Gref’s wedding.

In January 2006, Fradkov signed the Russian development program for 2006-2008. Vedomosti called it "an excellent example of a compromise" between the prime minister and his subordinates - Gref and Kudrin. The signing of the program, according to the publication, was hampered by disagreements over the clause on doubling GDP in 10 years. Throughout 2005, Gref’s department introduced various revised versions of the medium-term program, but doubling GDP did not work out, despite the planned ultra-high oil prices. As a result, only the phrase remained in the program that the program should ensure GDP growth doubled in 10 years, but without indicating which years and without economic calculations. In exchange for this, Kudrin and Gref agreed to reduce the value added tax (VAT) rate to 13 percent, which Fradkov insisted on for more than a year, but also without specifying the timing of the introduction of this rate. In this regard, political scientist Alexei Makarkin noted that “Fradkov clearly does not have enough strength to push through decisions, there are too many centers of gravity in the office,” since “both Kudrin and Gref have direct access to the president.”

It was noted that Gref is absolutely intolerant of the slightest signs of corruption in his circle (allegedly his secretaries are afraid to take even a box of chocolates as a gift). In 2001, Literaturnaya Gazeta expressed the opinion that Gref clearly sees that the root of evil in Russia lies in corrupt officials. According to the publication, ninety percent of his efforts are aimed at combating them. At the same time, the newspaper noted, Gref’s sobriety in his assessment of Russian realities is at times strikingly combined with naivety: for example, he allegedly believes that if the authorities set an example of honesty and transparency, then the bureaucracy at lower levels will follow this example.

The press published statements about Gref as a proud, hot-tempered and not always restrained person. He reacts sharply to criticism and once at a government meeting he was indignant for a long time and demanded that the extremists who publicly burned his effigy be severely punished. His working vocabulary is also figurative and emotional (the media published stories from Gref’s colleagues that expressions such as “for such work you should be hung on a rope”, “lowered down the stairs” are commonplace for him). At the same time, the press emphasized that Gref always apologizes if he was wrong, and in ordinary situations he is quite polite and correct.

Putin, according to some reports, appreciates the simplicity, aphorism, and “unscientific” nature with which Gref sets out his views on the country’s development. It was even suggested that Putin’s expressions “wet in the toilet” and “the ears of a dead donkey” were born precisely “during meetings between the head of state and the minister of economics.” A number of media outlets mentioned that with other high-ranking officials, Gref very often uses a win-win argument: “I will go to Putin, and he will support me!” - despite the fact that the president does not like to interfere in conflicts between his associates.

In 2003, the television "News of the Week", calling Gref the only Russian Catholic minister, reported that he accompanied President Putin during his visit to the Vatican and appeared before Pope John Paul II. “Arguments and Facts,” in turn, also talked about the visit to the Vatican, but clarified that Gref adheres to the Protestant faith, which denies the very institution of the papacy, which, in their opinion, gave some piquancy to the situation.

In May 2006, in an interview with NTV channel, Gref said that he did not intend to work as an official all his life. Comparing civil service with service in the army, he noted that it is associated “with a huge number of restrictions, including personal restrictions.” “But this cannot last a lifetime,” he emphasized. In December 2006, in an interview with NTV, he again spoke about his resignation. Having said that the work of the Minister of Economy is extremely difficult, he said: “I believe that there are a large number of worthy people in the country who will cope with these responsibilities no worse than me.” He also mentioned the need for rotation in the government, noting that he “will need to be ‘changed’ in the near future, like other ... members of the government.” About his plans for the future, Gref said: “I would like to go into business somewhere, I don’t know where else, I need to change the field of activity...”.

On September 12, 2007, Gref became the acting Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation due to the fact that the Chairman of the Russian Government, Mikhail Fradkov, asked President Putin to resign his entire cabinet. The prime minister justified his request by the desire to give the president freedom of personnel decisions on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections. Putin accepted the resignation, asking the prime minister and other ministers to temporarily perform their duties. Fradkov's successor as prime minister was Viktor Zubkov, whose appointment was approved by the State Duma on September 14. On September 24, a new government was announced: Gref was replaced by his former first deputy, Elvira Nabiullina.

On October 16, 2007, the Supervisory Board of Sberbank of Russia recommended Gref's candidacy for election as president and chairman of the board of the bank. A few days earlier, the former head of Sberbank Andrey Kazmin was recommended by Zubkov for the post of head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post. At the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Sberbank of Russia held on November 28, 2007, a decision was made to early terminate Kazmin’s powers “in connection with a transfer to another job.” As expected, Gref was elected in his place (no other candidates were put to the vote).

In June 2009, Gref, as chairman of the board of Sberbank of Russia, joined the board of directors of NK OJSC Lukoil (president - Vagit Alekperov).

In 2009, Gref repeatedly appeared in the press with forecasts about the future of the Russian economy and the possibilities of reducing the negative consequences for it during the global financial crisis. In January, he was quite optimistic: the head of Sberbank noted that simultaneously with the reduction in the number of banks as a result of the crisis, the technological level and quality of the banking system would increase, and “the old and, as it turned out, ineffective, risk management model would be replaced.” At the same time, Gref admitted that the crisis would last longer than could be expected. In April of the same year, he stated that “the banking crisis in the Russian Federation is now at the very beginning, and it will come from the real sector of the economy.” At the same time, he reported that back in September 2008, at a meeting of the Russian government, he predicted a decline in GDP in 2009 by four percent and a possible drop in the banking sector by 18.8 percent. “Everyone laughed at it then... But now it’s obvious that these are absolutely real numbers...” he said.

In December 2009, Sberbank of Russia announced rebranding. Gref said that the bank was going to change its corporate identity and instead of the existing logo choose a more “dynamic and youthful” one back in May of the same year. According to experts, changing the logo and updating all branches should have cost about 20 billion rubles. Even before the presentation of the new logo, experts said that although Sberbank’s rebranding is aimed at attracting new clients, it will only pay off if business processes are changed along with the corporate identity. The bank's new logo was introduced on December 14, 2009; At the same time, Gref announced a number of other measures aimed at creating the image of a “completely new Sberbank”, including the introduction of new formats for customer service offices. In September of the following year, the bank also changed its previous name "Joint-stock commercial Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (open joint-stock company)" to a new one - "Open joint-stock company "Sberbank of Russia"".

In January 2010, Gref, speaking at the Davos Economic Forum, spoke out in favor of reducing the state share in the capital of Russian banks: in particular, he proposed reducing the state stake in Sberbank from 57.6 percent to 50 percent plus one share. In March of the following year, the sale of 7.58 percent of Sberbank shares was approved by the National Banking Council, and in September 2012, the shares were sold on the stock exchange for $5.22 billion.

At the end of May 2010, it became known that Gref acquired a small number of shares of Sberbank - 0.000004 percent of the authorized capital. It was noted that the option programs being prepared at that time for Sberbank could have allowed Gref to significantly increase his stake in shares. However, already in June, Gref, without waiting for the start of the option programs, increased his stake in Sberbank immediately by 150 times, bringing it to 0.0006 percent of the authorized capital. By August 2011, his share in the authorized capital of Sberbank increased to 0.0016 percent and continued to grow.

In February 2011, Vedomosti reported the record profit that Sberbank received and the largest payments to its managers in the bank's history, amounting to almost 985 million rubles at the end of 2010. The quarterly report noted that the increase in payments was associated with an increase in the bank’s net profit from 21.7 to 183.6 billion rubles, i.e. more than 8 times. Gref spoke about the successes of Sberbank at a meeting with Prime Minister Putin. In response to this, as Vedomosti noted, the head of government asked how much the bank pays on deposits to its depositors, and, having heard the answer that for a period of six months the rate would be about 5 percent, he joked: “You are swindlers.”

Sberbank's net profit in 2011 was again a record, exceeding the previous year's result by 74 percent and amounting to 315.9 billion rubles. Only in the last quarter of the year, the bank showed a lower financial result than in 2010 due to increased contributions to reserves associated with lending growth outpacing the market. In the first quarter of 2012, Sberbank's net profit again exceeded the result of the previous year and amounted to 92.2 billion rubles against 86.8 billion in January-March 2011 [

Co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Mariinsky Theater. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian International Affairs Council. Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research. Member of the Board of Directors of Yandex. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Higher School of Economics. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Deaf-Blind “Connection”. Member of the board of trustees of Patriot Park. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cinema Fund.

German Gref was born on February 8, 1964 in the village of Panfilovo, Republic of Kazakhstan. The boy grew up in a family of German exiles. Parents taught their children to speak two languages ​​at once: German and Russian. The head of the family, Oscar Fedorovich, worked as an electrical engineer; his mother, Emilia Filippovna, was an economist in the village council. At the age of one and a half years, Herman loses his father, who died in an accident. His grandmother helped his mother raise the children. The guy studied well at school, turned out to be persistent and capable of achieving his goals thanks to his inherited pedantry. After receiving secondary education, he worked as a legal consultant in the regional agricultural department. In 1982, he was drafted into the army, where he served in the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Having been demobilized, the young man entered the law faculty of Omsk State University named after Fyodor Dostoevsky. After receiving a higher education diploma in 1990, Gref remained at his university teaching. At the same time, he entered graduate school at St. Petersburg State University. Having passed the candidate exams, he received a first-level academic degree.

Herman’s supervisor in graduate school was the mayor of the Northern capital, famous political figure Anatoly Sobchak. It was Anatoly Aleksandrovich who introduced Gref, who clearly had professional and personal potential, into the Administration of the Petrodvortsovsky district of St. Petersburg.

Since 1991, German Oskarovich's rapid advancement up the career ladder began. The young politician held a number of leadership positions: head of the property management committee, legal consultant, head of department. While working in the power structures of the Northern capital, I met Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Soon, in 1998, German Gref joined the board of the Ministry of State Property, becoming first deputy head of the department. The next year was no less eventful with appointments to key positions. Among them, membership in the board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market, election to the board of directors of Gazprom, Svyazinvest, leadership of the Center for Strategic Research.

After Vladimir Putin’s victory in the election of the country’s leader, Gref was invited to the Russian Government as the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, newly created under him, by merging separately existing departments.

On the recommendation of the Supervisory Board of the main credit and financial institution of Russia, in October 2007, German Oskarovich was elected president and chairman of the board of Sberbank. His team expanded the range of clients conducting payment transactions via the Internet, involved pensioners in the progress of mass adoption of plastic cards and other advanced technologies, and introduced a private banking service for wealthy citizens. At the annual meeting of shareholders held in May 2015, Gref’s powers as the head of the country’s main credit institution were extended for the next four years.

German Oskarovich is also known as an outstanding public figure. The experienced leader is a co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Mariinsky Theater, a member of the board of trustees of the Russian International Affairs Council, Chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic Research, a member of the board of directors of Yandex, chairman of the board of trustees of the Higher School of Economics, chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation for the support of the deaf-blind “Connection”.

In January 2018, German Gref was included in the “Kremlin list” of the United States Treasury Department, that is, a list of people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the president of Sberbank was not included in the sanctions list itself. In October of the same year, Gref took second place in the ranking of influential Russians according to Forbes magazine.

By decree of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on February 1, 2019, German Gref was included in the Board of Trustees of the Cinema Fund. In mid-March 2019, by a unanimous decision of the council, he was accepted into the Board of Trustees of the Polytechnic Museum.

As part of the “Characters” program, on May 19, 2019, a long interview with Nailya Asker-zadeh with the President of the Board of Sberbank of Russia German Gref was aired.

Shareholders of Sberbank of Russia at the annual meeting on May 24, 2019 elected German Gref as president - chairman of the board of the organization for another four years.

President of Russia September 10, 2019 met with the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia, German Gref, who told the head of state about the results of Sberbank’s work this year, as well as the projects being implemented by the bank in the field of education and technological innovation. Separately, we discussed work in regions affected by floods and floods. Gref also informed Putin about work to replace lost bank cards, payment of insurance, and plans for the construction of an infectious diseases department in the Tulun hospital.

German Gref Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (February 8, 2019) - for significant contribution to the development and strengthening of the banking system, many years of conscientious work

Badge “For Merit to the Moscow Region”, 1st degree (2016)

Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014)

Order of Honor (February 13, 2014) - for achieved labor success, significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, merits in the humanitarian sphere, strengthening the rule of law, protecting the rights and interests of citizens, many years of conscientious work

Laureate of the All-Russian Prize for Financiers “Reputation” 2013 in the nomination “For the formation of socially responsible financial business”

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (October 19, 2011) - for his great contribution to the development of the domestic banking system and many years of conscientious work

For special achievements in the field of banking and personal contribution to the development of Sberbank, he was awarded the Sberbank Gold Badge.

Officer of the Legion of Honor (France, 2010) - for his contribution to the development of relations between the two countries

P. A. Stolypin Medal, II degree (2009) - for services in the development and implementation of the economic strategy for the development of the Russian Federation and many years of impeccable work

Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (February 11, 2009) - for many years of conscientious government activity

Personalized honorary badge “For Civil Merit”, 1st degree (Astrakhan, December 10, 2007) - for enormous support aimed at the comprehensive socio-economic development of the city of Astrakhan, expansion of production, improvement of the living standards of citizens, their social security, preservation of peace and friendship between peoples, further development of charity, patronage of the arts, and on the eve of the 450th anniversary of the city

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (August 6, 2007) - for active participation in ensuring the victory of the city of Sochi’s bid for the right to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Games in 2014

Honorary citizen of the city of Astrakhan (2007)

Honorary Citizen of Peterhof (2007)

Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st degree (ROC, 2006)

Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2003.

Family of German Gref

Born into a family of ethnic Germans who were expelled from Donbass in 1941.
Gref is bilingual, having equal command of Russian and German from an early age.

Father - Gref Oscar Fedorovich, worked as an engineer.

Mother, Emilia Filippovna, was an economist in the village council.

The older sister, Elena Peredriy, graduated from the pedagogical institute, married Sergei Peredriy and moved to Nakhodka.

Sister - Gref Evgenia;

The elder brother, Evgeny Gref, is a businessman in Omsk, co-owner of the Technosofia and Siberia Ceramics chain stores, the Geomart and Letur shopping centers.

The first wife is Elena Velikanova, the first beauty of his school. The young people got married immediately after receiving secondary education. The marriage did not last long.
Son - Oleg (born 1982). In 2004, he graduated from Moscow State University and is the head of the consulting group of the NEO Center.

Second wife - Yana Golovina, nee Golovina (marriage since 2004). Works as a designer. Their wedding celebration was held in one of the halls of Peterhof.
The first daughter was born in 2006.
The second Daughter was born in 2008.

Gref's mother-in-law Tatyana Golovina is engaged in the resort business. Since the end of 2008, he has been the head of the Rus sanatorium in Gelendzhik, owned by Transneft structures.

German Gref is an outstanding Russian figure, a person of state level. He is currently the head of Sberbank, and before that he was the Minister of Economy and Trade Development. He also currently holds the official position of Chairman of the main bank and is included on the boards of many reputable domestic companies.

To reach this level, Gref walked a thorny road, starting as an average legal consultant, and eventually reaching almost the very top. He is a successful entrepreneur and politician, and is also included in the list of the highest paid state managers.

Height, weight, age. How old is German Gref

It is not surprising that the majority of the population wants to know as much as possible about such important people for the state as Gref German Oskarovich. Any details from the lives of people of this level are of great interest to people. Including his height, weight, age. How old is German Gref - information is publicly available. The politician was born in one of the Kazakhstani villages, and today he is already 54 years old. The man is 180 centimeters tall and weighs 76 kilograms.

Let us note that Herman’s nationality is a little unusual for a Russian politician - he is an ethnic German. More than once there have been rumors that he is in fact a Jew, but this is not true. German is a handsome man, and looking through the photos of German Gref in his youth and now, you only find confirmation of this.

Biography of German Gref, head of Sberbank

The future official was born in Kazakhstan, in a village called Panfilovo. His father, Oscar Gref, worked as an electrical engineer, and his mother, Emilia Gref, worked as an economist. The man also has an older brother, Evgeniy, and a sister, Elena.

Little Gref was an exemplary student and a good son. After graduation, the guy joined the army, and then entered the Omsk Law University. He studied there so well that after completing his studies, he was offered a teaching position at the university.

The biography of German Gref, head of Sberbank, changed when in 1998 he received the post of deputy head of the Ministry of State Property. A promising employee annually moved up the career ladder, and at the same time received authority and recognition from colleagues. He was the head of officials at Gazprom and the Securities Council. And when Putin became president, Gref received a position in the government, taking a post in the Ministry of Economy and Trade Development.

Gref received his next promotion about ten years ago, heading Sberbank.

It is interesting that this man did not become arrogant. He is always open to communicate with ordinary people. Anyone has the opportunity to write a letter to German Gref Sberbank.

Personal life of German Gref

In his home village called Panfilovo, he fell in love for the first time. His chosen one was a classmate named Lena. Romance broke out between them almost immediately, and therefore, as soon as they graduated from school, they decided to get married. In this relationship, German had his first child - a son named Oleg. But, unfortunately, the couple was unable to keep the family together for long and divorced. Only at the beginning of the two thousandth, German Gref’s personal life finally began to improve. At that time, he had already become a famous politician when he finally decided to marry a second time. His next wife was Yana Golovina, a famous Moscow designer. She was able to give Herman two children.

Gref really likes classical literature and music. And he also instills a love for this in his kids.

Family of German Gref

It is interesting that German Gref’s family are Catholics. That’s why they raised their children in accordance with all Catholic canons. From childhood, Herman’s parents taught him and their older children not only Russian, but also German, because the latter is the language of their ancestors, which, in their opinion, children are also obliged to know. Although both Herman’s father and mother worked, the mother still managed to pay more attention to her offspring, because the father of the family was responsible for supplying the entire village with electricity.

The man died when Herman was still a one and a half year old baby; it seems that he did not really remember his father. Then my grandmother began to help with upbringing.

Children of German Gref

In total, the politician has three children from two women. In his first marriage to his classmate Elena, she gave him a son, who was named Oleg. The young parents simply adored their boy. But they did not live together for long, and soon they had to divorce.

The second and last wife at the moment gave birth to the man’s two children. It doesn’t matter after the divorce or not, but the children of German Gref were never left without their father’s love and care, despite the fact that he holds a high position and is very often busy with work. Gref closely monitors their studies, takes part in their education, and shares the joy of success. Wants to give the best, like any good father.

The ex-wife of German Gref - Elena Velikanova

It often happens that young people get married early and only later, having more sensibly assessed their feelings, realize that they made a mistake. It is rare for such families to live happily ever after. The same thing happened with the politician. The ex-wife of German Gref, Elena Velikanova, as already mentioned, studied with German in the same class.

The guy was in love with her throughout his school life and the couple got married almost immediately after graduating from school. But they did not take into account that they were not ready for life together and the problems that appear sooner or later. That's why their relationship didn't last long.

German Gref's wife - Yana Gref

The wife of German Gref, Yana Gref, became such in 2004. The difference between the spouses is almost ten years. The wedding ceremony was so magnificent and luxurious that it was discussed online for a whole year. The event took place in the Great Hall of Peterhof. And this small detail gave rise to many rumors and gossip, not of the most positive nature. Many were shocked and even outraged that such a valuable architectural monument was being rented out.

Yana has a degree in economics, but she hardly worked in her specialty, becoming interested in interior design. Today she is also the owner of a private school in the capital.

Is German Gref blue?

Due to the fact that German Gref is such a significant figure in the state, it is not surprising that his life was constantly accompanied by a variety of rumors. Once it even got to the point where one could find articles online on the topic of Herman’s non-traditional sexual orientation. One can only guess what prompted the author to write such an article. But at the same time, a person with Gref’s position always attracts attention.

Perhaps this was just an online “duck” in order to stir up interest in the political person. And they couldn’t come up with anything better than to declare that he was gay.

Instagram and Wikipedia German Gref

The head of Sberbank of Russia is an experienced analyst and a good strategist. He was able to optimize the activities of most departments and companies of which he was an employee. Despite his busy work schedule, he is an exemplary family man. This indisputable fact can be confirmed, among other things, by Instagram and Wikipedia of German Gref.

There you can find a lot of different information about this person. Gref also has profiles on social networks - Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter. But it is worth mentioning that it only describes the activities of Sberbank, and describes topics relating only to economics and politics. Article found by alabanza.ru

German Gref is the president of Sberbank of Russia, former head of the Transneft, Lukoil, Gazprom, and Yandex holdings. At one time he headed the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia, created original conceptual ideas for organizing free trade zones, and developed a strategy for reforms in the electric power industry and taxation.

The name of German Gref is well known not only to residents of Russia, but also far beyond its borders. He became famous for his political and economic activities, and was one of the nine Russian businessmen who are called eccentric eccentrics. So, in any case, the world-famous publication Forbes believes. His path to fame and glory was long, he started as a simple lawyer in one of the villages of Kazakhstan and now holds the high post of head of one of the largest banks in Russia - Sberbank.

Childhood and youth

The birthplace of German Gref was the small Kazakh village of Panfilovo near Pavlograd. It was there that he was born on February 8, 1964. His parents, ethnic Germans, ended up in Kazakhstan at the beginning of 1941. Previously lived in Donbass. The boy's family belonged to the intelligentsia. Father Oscar Gref was educated as an engineer, and worked in his specialty, his field of responsibility was the electricity supply to their village. Mom Emilia Gref is an economist by training and worked in the village council. German is the youngest of the three Gref children; before that, the family had a son, Evgeniy, and a daughter, Elena.

Herman was only one and a half years old when his father died in an accident. Three children were left in the care of their mother and grandmother, who raised them. The children were taught to speak two languages, so they knew Russian and German perfectly. In addition, they were instilled with modesty, restraint and accuracy.

At school, Herman studied diligently, he had no complaints about discipline or academic performance, although he did not show much interest in the educational process. German was at one time seriously involved in sports, even taking the place of captain of the basketball team of his native school.

After receiving a school certificate, Gref without much effort became a student at MGIMO, but studied only one course and was expelled. Why this happened, no one ever knew. Soon after this, the young man received a summons and went to serve in the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its unit was stationed in the city of Chapaevsk near Kuibyshev. He was demobilized in 1984 and entered Omsk Law University, choosing jurisprudence as his specialty. During his student years, German was active in social activities, he was elected a Komsomol organizer, and this was a good start into big politics. In 1990, German Gref received a university diploma, and, as the best graduate, he was offered a teaching position at the law department at the same university.

That same year, Gref became a graduate student at Leningrad University, where he was fortunate to come under the wing of Anatoly Sobchak, the former mayor of Leningrad. It was Sobchak who became the so-called godfather of Gref in big politics. Under the patronage of Anatoly Sobchak, German holds a position in the city administration of St. Petersburg, where the future presidents of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, worked at that time.

State

The perestroika years became key in the biography of German Gref. It was in those years that the decision was made to create a special committee for the economic development of Russia, and Gref took the leading position in it. He knew how to forecast the economy very accurately and prospectively, and he presented his projects in accessible language that was understandable to everyone.

He held this position for seven years, after which his career began to rapidly develop in a political direction. In 1998, Gref was already sitting in the chair of the deputy head of the Ministry of State Property of Russia, in 1999 he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research, and was a member of the board of the Federal Commission on the Securities Market. After Vladimir Putin took over as president of the country in 2000, Gref received the post of Minister of Economic Development and Trade and moved to Moscow.

German Gref stayed in this chair until 2007, despite the fact that during this period five Russian prime ministers managed to change. He actively lobbied for the program for Russia’s entry into the WTO, and began reforming the electricity industry and taxation. It was these actions that helped Russia become a developed economic country, bring the market economy to a new level and take a high place in the investment rating.

In addition to working in the government, Gref was the head and member of the board of directors of the largest Russian corporations - Aeroflot, Gazprom, Rosneft, Transneft.

In Sberbank

In 2007, when the entire government resigned, Gref surrendered his powers in the ministry. He was replaced by Elvira Nabiullina. In the same year, he was elected to the position of president and chairman of the board of Sberbank of Russia, and he remains in this position to this day.

In this field, he also managed to achieve amazing results. Over the years of his reign, Sberbank refocused on clients, of whom there were many more. Thanks to this, the financial institution's net profit increased by 74%. Gref insisted on the introduction of new technological systems in service, which helped manage branches remotely. Gradually, Sberbank of Russia took a leading position in European countries. German Gref pays special attention to the corporate culture of his institution, and every year the bank’s employees must read books, the list of which he compiles himself.

In addition, Gref’s attitude towards sports is known. Since childhood, he played basketball, hockey, and athletics, and later became interested in tennis. Herman tries to train four times a week, but sometimes being busy at work knocks him out of his usual routine. In addition, he strongly recommends that his top managers go to the gym at least three times a week.

In the spring of 2015, it became known that the post of president of Sberbank was retained by Gref until 2019. In addition, he joined the board of directors of one of the world's largest search engines, Yandex.

According to the shareholders, Herman has the necessary professionalism and so-called acumen, which help in the development of this company.

In 2016, the name of German Gref was heard in connection with a loud scandal related to his assessment of the state of Russia in the international economic market. In his opinion, Russia is a downshifter country that is in the abyss and enslaved by other countries. State Duma deputies did not like this comparison; they suggested that he immediately resign as president and resign.

Personal life

In the personal life of German Gref there were two official marriages. The first time he married his classmate Elena Velikanova, with whom he had been in love since school. They got married as soon as they received their school certificates. In 1982, their son Oleg was born. At the age of seventeen, he already became a student at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, and three years later he achieved a transfer to Moscow State University. Currently he heads the consulting group of the NEO Center. German Gref divorced Elena as soon as he began his career in the government.

The banker's personal life changed in 2004, when he married designer Yana Glumova for the second time. She is an economist by training and founded the Khoroshevskaya gymnasium. Their wedding became the subject of outrage and widespread discussion in the press, because the unique Peterhof nature reserve was chosen as the venue, and the banker spent several million on renting the throne room. In union with Yana, two daughters of a banker were born, one in 2006, the second in 2008. In 2015, a photo of Herman’s wife was leaked to the media, which clearly shows that she is pregnant again.

Yana Gref’s mother is Tatyana Golovina, owner of a resort business. In 2008, she headed the Rus sanatorium in the city of Gelendzhik, which belongs to the Transneft holding.

German’s sister, Elena Perederiy, lives in Nakhodka with her husband. Brother Evgeniy has a successful business in Omsk. He owns several stores and shopping centers.

Like all public people, German Gref sometimes finds himself at the center of scandals. In 2015, he was accused of being gay, which was aired on Finafm radio. In the fall of the same year, all the capital's bus stops were covered with posters stating that Volodin and Gref were not gay. They were soon dismantled, and the information itself was classified as provocative.

State

As Forbes magazine announced, in 2015 Gref became the highest paid manager in the Russian Federation, with an average annual income of $13.5 million. It consists of salaries, bonuses, compensation and stock awards. In 2016, Gref lost ground a little and declared only eleven million dollars.

In 2017, a short video of Gref’s speech at the economic forum in St. Petersburg flashed on the YouTube channel, the full version of which could be watched on the Russia-24 channel. Probably Herman did not know or simply forgot that the forum was broadcast live, so he advocated supporting the teachings of Kabbalah. He said that the common people do not need to know the truth, because it is from the thinking people that the danger to the government comes.

Gref has never hidden the fact that he dreams of digital dominance. He has repeatedly emphasized in his interviews that he advocates the legalization of virtual money – Bitcoin. In 2017, he advocated that all lawyers of Sberbank of Russia learn to work with neural networks.

Currently, the head of Sberbank is paying close attention to mortgage lending, the services of which are used by many residents of Russia. In August 2018, Gref met with Russian President Putin and provided him with a report on the state of affairs in the financial institution entrusted to him. His report cited figures for the work of the lending department, from which it is clear that they have successfully reached pre-crisis levels.

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Society, 18 Sep, 22:35

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Business, 16 Sep, 08:00

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Economics, 13 Sep, 14:43

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Finance, 13 Sep, 12:51

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Economics, 13 Sep, 11:35

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Finance, 10 Sep, 16:02

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Business, 10 Sep, 15:23

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Society, 07 Sep, 15:24

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Business, 07 Sep, 13:00

The authorities promised support to increase investment in refineries by 2.5 times ... . in year. The reason for this was the request of the head of Sberbank German Gref, which provided loans to troubled factories. New measures to support oil refineries The government ordered... . in year. The main creditor The head of Sberbank achieved support for the industry Hermann Gref: besides him and the officials at the meeting with Siluanov and Kozak... the Safmar group bought it, and Sberbank supported the plant by restructuring the debt. Initially Gref asked President Vladimir Putin for benefits for the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, but...

Society, 05 Sep, 09:16

Gref announced his desire to “kill school exams” Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref spoke out against the knowledge assessment system and stated that he would like “... the existing learning process “kills any desire to learn” (quote from TASS). Gref added that people graduate from school “with disabilities”: they get used to... this Gref noted that a teacher is one of the main professions and will remain so in the future. In October 2018 Hermann Gref called highly specialized...

Finance, 05 Sep, 08:26

Gref called the idea of ​​the right of borrowers to repurchase debts at a discount strange ... the head of VTB Andrey Kostin also spoke about his debts. Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok commented on the proposal... it seemed strange to me,” he said (quoted by TASS). Gref noted that banking rules have an “iron norm” - never... buy it, can you imagine what will happen?” - he continued. According to Gref, this will lead to an overestimation of risks. Such initiatives need to be discussed with...

Society, 03 Sep, 14:31

Gref responded to Putin's criticism of his reluctance to help flood victims ... in a message from the bank to RBC after the visit of the head of the credit institution, German Gref to the flooded Tulun. “We have decided that we will restructure loans to victims... with forgiveness of interest payments that will accumulate over this year,” he said Gref. The bank also promised to build an infectious diseases department of the hospital in the city ... we will adapt it to local tasks,” noted the head of Sberbank. In addition, I added Gref, Sberbank took part in organizing holidays for 223 children from the victims... Antipinsky Refinery received first benefits after transfer to Sberbank ... TASS Governor of the Tyumen region Alexander Moor. In July, the head of Sberbank Hermann Gref asked President Vladimir Putin to increase the so-called negative... Gref was denied a request to support the Antipinsky Oil Refinery ... stable load, as well as in the presence of a corresponding order. Second request Gref about changing the conditions of licenses for deposits in the Orenburg region was criticized... . According to a representative of the Ministry of Finance, the ministry sent a position on Herman’s appeal Gref at the Ministry of Energy. Sberbank is the largest creditor of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery. The plant owes the bank... "New Stream" denied Sberbank's accusations of withdrawing funds abroad ... other creditors - about $600 million. According to the head of Sberbank German Gref, the total volume of debts is about $5 billion. In 2018, Sberbank... Gref denied reports about the severance of relations between Sberbank and Yandex ...reasons, said the head of the bank Hermann Gref, RIA Novosti reports. “We are definitely not going to break off relations with each other,” he said Gref. According to him... to become “one of the largest players in Russian online retail”; head of Sberbank Hermann Gref stated that the parties intend to build a “Russian Amazon.” Natalia Demchenko The case against Mazurov was initiated at the request of Gref ... " Dmitry Mazurov was initiated following a statement by Sberbank President German Gref, reports TASS agency with reference to materials that were announced... Gref allowed stricter requirements for issuing consumer loans ... tighten the conditions for issuing consumer loans. This opinion was expressed by the head of Sberbank Hermann Gref, Interfax reports. “There will be, and there are today, restrictions, they may be... Gref reported on the impact of cybersecurity on sleep ... Confidence in cybersecurity affects the quality of sleep, said the president of Sberbank Hermann Gref, RIA Novosti reports. The more you dive into the problem of cybersecurity, the more... hackers,” the head of Sberbank emphasized, speaking at the International Congress on Cybersecurity. Gref also added that managers of large companies should be paranoid in... Gref considered it quite possible for the United States to ban transactions with Russia’s national debt ... there is an understanding of how to act if it is implemented Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref called it a completely possible scenario that the United States would impose a ban on... it is possible, but the likelihood of this today is quite difficult to assess,” he quotes Gref"RIA News". A bill on new sanctions against Russia. The main thing is the bill... Gref joked about Sobyanin’s love for digging up Moscow ... Sberbank Hermann Gref and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin exchanged barbs about the dug up capital and Sberbank’s monopoly in the financial services market Sobyanin against Gref..., head of Sberbank Hermann Gref jokingly reproached the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, that he likes to dig up all of Moscow, an RBC correspondent reports. Gref, which advocates... ways, but investments in an intelligent transport system have proven to be the most effective. Gref praised the Central Bank’s system of fast payments with the phrase about “forced happiness” In addition... Gref called returning to the government “the most terrible outcome of his career” ... he named his work business, education and venture entrepreneurship Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref does not intend to return to work in government agencies. He talks about this... many times. This is not my dream job,” he said. Gref emphasized that he worked in government agencies for almost 12 years and...,” said Hermann Gref, adding that he is now at an age where he doesn't want to do something he doesn't like. Gref is...

Gref has headed the bank since October 2007, his current contract is expiring...

Gref estimated the number of jambs at Sberbank ... According to Gref, Sberbank “still messes up a lot,” but criticism is a source for further development Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref during the annual meeting of shareholders... “there are still a lot of problems.” The meeting was broadcast on the Sberbank YouTube channel. Gref noted that criticism is a source of further development. “If we are where... the answer is that I don’t understand anything that we wrote to him,” he said Gref. Gref summed up his promise to “teach an elephant to dance” At the beginning of the week... Gref announced the purchase of domains for the SberX ecosystem ... Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, he stated that the bank had registered all possible... that the bank’s management had to buy out some names. Among them Gref mentioned SberX. “Therefore, just in case, we registered the widest possible spectrum... Gref summed up his promise to “teach an elephant to dance” ... baby elephants." “Does he dance harmoniously?” you need to ask clients, he believes Gref The head of Sberbank, in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, commented on the promise to “teach an elephant... a working ecosystem,” he concluded Gref. Gref gave himself a B for his work at Sberbank After being appointed to the post of head of Sberbank Hermann Gref at the beginning of 2008... Gref praised the Central Bank’s system of fast payments with the phrase about “forced happiness” ...this connection. With the regulator, expressed hope Gref, the credit institution will be able to find a compromise Head of Sberbank Hermann Gref expressed the hope that the credit institution... tracking non-discriminatory partnerships is unclear to me,” commented on the position of the credit institution Gref. The Central Bank has decided on the date for connecting Sberbank to the Faster Payments System... Gref previously gave himself a B for his work as head of Sberbank... he doesn’t measure up.” In early spring 2019, it became known that Hermann Gref agreed to remain as head of the organization.