On November 23 in the State Academic Bolshoy Theatre the Fifth Jubilee Annual ceremony, of awarding the laureates of the Russian National Prize in Business and Enterprise "Business-Olympus" for the year 2001 was held.

The Expert Council of the Russian Academy of Business and Enterprise, 45 regional departments of the Academy, as well as the Presidium of the Academy and The Big Jury of the mass media, which included leaders of the mass media of Russia, took part in the preparation of the jubilee Ceremony, which in the end selected laureates from a vast number of candidates. The counting of the votes was done by the Board of Russian Lawyers. Procedure of selecting of the laureates was carried out on the basis of methodology, using the best domestic and foreign experience of conducting the monitoring and rating research and excluding the least possibility of influence on the process of selection and the falsification of its results.

Bolshoi Theatre "stars" greeted the prize winners with their superb performances.