Unipro shareholders elect Ruslan Lidzar as company's new CEO - disclosure

MOSCOW. April 13 (Interfax) - Shareholders of PJSC Unipro voted to terminate the powers of the company's CEO Vasily Nikonov and elected Ruslan Lidzar as its new head at an extraordinary meeting held on April 7, according to a disclosure by Unipro.

The main shareholder of Unipro with a stake of 83.73% is the German energy holding company Uniper. However, in April 2023, the Russian president issued a decree introducing temporary management over the Russian assets of Fortum and Uniper. Following this, the companies' boards of directors, at the request of the Federal Property Agency (Rosimushchestvo), replaced their CEOs. At Unipro, the head of the energy department of PJSC Rosneft (since 2024, the vice president of the company) Vasily Nikonov became the CEO.

RBC reported at the end of February 2026 that Nikonov had left Rosneft.

As for Lidzar, in recent years he has held the position of chief power engineer of a Rosneft structure, Orenburgneft, and from February 28, 2026, by decision of the Unipro board of directors, he became the interim CEO of the generating company.