OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2011. Consortium of the Russian Institute of Directors and the rating agency "Expert RA" has raised JSC "RusHydro" rating to level 7+, "The advanced practice of corporate management "on a scale of National Corporate Governance Rating.

Since the confirmation reytingakorporativnogo OAO "RusHydro" level "7" in December 2009, there have been some significant changes relating to the improvement of the most important institutions in corporate governance of the Company. As a result of the experts of the Consortium monitoring and evaluation of corporate governance rating of "RusHydro" upgraded to level 7+.

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