‘Because of the financial crisis, Pnevmostroymachina will have to make 10% of its staff redundant. This means 200 people out of 2000,’ the company’s press officer Yana Dukhnovskaya said to an UrBC reporter.

Besides, it has already been announced earlier that Pnevmostroymachina (part of Finpromco partnership) had to introduce a four-day working week, while a portion of the employees might have to leave on vacation on November 1-10, 2008.

‘It’s true that some of our workers will go on a ten-day leave next month. The workers dealing with the machines and equipment won’t be made redundant, since they are this company’s major workforce. They will be switched to a four-day working week, though,’ Dukhnovskaya added.