Russia

Gazprom to cut administrative personnel 1.5 times

Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas monopoly, is to reduce the number of central office staff from 4,100 to 2,500 people, a letter to the head of Gazprom said. The company confirmed the authenticity of the letter, but declined to comment on it.The letter with the proposal from Gazprom Management Committee Deputy Chairperson Elena Ilyukhina to CEO Alexey Miller about reducing the number of the company’s central office was genuine, company representatives said.”The document is relevant. We do not plan to comment,” Sergei Kupriyanov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Head of the…