A TRAINEE from Russia has won the gold medal for the top performer in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland's test of professional expertise.
Mariya Semenkovich, originally from Aleksandrov, aced the five-and-a-half-hour exam to come ahead of more than 850 other students in the UK who sat it. She was also one of only two people who scored a distinction by achieving more than 80% from the examiners.
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