By Adrian Erlinger, Account Manager, The PBN Company

On Monday, women were fêted with flowers as Russia celebrated International Women’s Day. On March 12, Yelena Skrynnik became the third female to join President Dmitry Medvedev’s cabinet, filling the post of Minister of Agriculture. With the economic climate negatively impacting Russia’s regions, Medvedev’s has chosen a proven manager to steer the agricultural sector through a difficult financial period.

“I know that today our situation is rendered that much more difficult by the financial crisis. It has exacerbated a number of problems that have been building up for decades in the countryside,” Medvedev said on a video broadcast on the Kremlin website.  “These involve issues concerning financing and obtaining affordable loans, the sort of problems that we have in fact been working on lately and with which we have had some success.”

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