Tag: Russia

The Russian Post is now opening a completely new page in its history. These were the words of Igor Syrtsov, general director of the postal service that has traditionally been seen as a weak state system unable to seriously affect how its work is organized and famous for considerably low service quality.

Syrtsov spoke of revamping the Russian Post at the unveiling of its CyberMoney project. The project, officially launched late last month, forms a unified federal system of electronic postal money orders and was initiated by the Communications Ministry and the Electronic Russia program.

The revenues from Russia’s postal services rose 15%-20% on the year to 30 billion rubles in 2003 according to preliminary data, the general director of the state-owned Russian Post company Igor Syrtsov told reporters.

Currently, Russian Post operates in 25 out of Russia’s 89 regions, while in other regions there are regional post service departments, which are expected to join Russian Post by the second quarter of this year, he said.