On February 10, 2014, the supervisory board of Ukrtelecom (Kyiv) relieved Lasha Mikava from the post of chairman and appointed Alexander Barinov instead. December 2010 to January 2014, Barinov was Chief Executive Officer at Astelit (life) brand. Before that he was Vice President, Sales at VimpelCom and June 2008 to November 2009 was heading Ukrainian RadioSystems (Beeline brand), specifically he was managing the merger with the fixed-line telephony operator Golden Telecom.

From February 10, 2014, Mikava is employed as an advisor on telecommunications at SCM.