OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2010. The annual international award “Best Taxpayer of the Year” was founded by the Fund for Contribution to Entrepreneurship Development (FCED) in 2008 with support by the State Duma's Sub-Committee for Budget and Taxes and Sub-Committee for Development of State and Commercial Partnership. The Award's objective is to popularize fair, transparent and competent conduct of business and to motivate businessmen to pay taxes the fair way.

CenterTelecom OJSC is the leading fixed-line operator providing a full range of telecommunications services in the Central Federal District where more than 20% of the Russian population live. CenterTelecom provides all types of telecommunications services including local and inter-zonal telephony, high speed Internet access based on xDSL technology, data transmission, wireline and wireless radio broadcasting, cable TV, and also renders interconnection and traffic transfer services to other telecommunications operators. CenterTelecom’s quality management system corresponds with GOST R ISO 9001:2001 state standard and ISO 9001:2000 international standard. The company is actively developing up-to-date broadband multiservice and subscriber access networks on the basis of the latest telecommunications technologies.