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Chubais
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian- Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing a market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He fled to Israel in 2022 and subsequently obtained Israeli citizenship. From 1998 to 2008, he headed the state-owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES. A 2004 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the ''Financial Times'' named Chubais the world's 54th most respected business leader. He was the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RUSNANO) from 2008 to 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Chubais
Igor Borisovich Chubais (; born 26 April 1947) is a Russian philosopher and sociologist, Doctor of Sciences, and the author of many scientific and journalistic works. He is an initiator of the introduction of the Russian education system a new subject ''Russian studies''. He is the first dean of "Russian studies" department at the Institute of Social Sciences and the director of Inter-University center for Russian studies in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He is a board member of the Russian Writers Union. He is the older brother of Russian billionaire oligarch and politician Anatoly Chubais.Чубайс, Анатолий Collection of materials at Lenta.ru The two have starkly di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Deputy Prime Minister Of Russia
A First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (), commonly referred to as the First Deputy Prime Minister, is a member of the Russian Government. The First Deputy is to be proposed by the Prime Minister, and approved by the President. However, this office is not provisioned by Constitution and it is not a separate office. The Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Russia says, that "The Government of the Russian Federation consists of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, ''Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation'' and federal ministries". First of all, First Vice-Premier is Vice-Premier, all others are distribution of responsibilities among Vice-Premiers inside the Government. There can be more than one First Vice-Premier, therefore written distribution of responsibilities is the most important document. The Federal constitutional law "On the Government of the Russian Federation" says "in the case of temporary absence of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Privatization
Privatization in Russia describes the series of post-Soviet reforms that resulted in large-scale privatization of Russia's state-owned assets, particularly in the industrial, energy, and financial sectors. Most privatization took place in the early and mid-1990s under Boris Yeltsin, who assumed the presidency following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Private ownership of enterprises and property had essentially remained illegal throughout the Soviet era, with Soviet Communism emphasizing national control over all means of production but human labor. Under the Soviet Union, the number of state enterprises was estimated at 45,000. Privatization facilitated the transfer of significant wealth to a relatively small group of business oligarchs and New Russians, particularly natural gas and oil executives. This economic transition has been described as ''katastroika'', which is a combination of ''catastrophe'' and the term ''perestroika'', and as "the most cataclysmic peaceti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusnano
Rusnano Group () is a Russian state-established and funded company. The Rusnano Group's mission is to create competitive nanotechnology-based industry in Russia. Rusnano invests directly and through indirect funds into all major knowledge-based areas where nanotechnology is widely implemented: electronics, optics, Telecommunication, telecom, classic and renewable energy, healthcare and biotechnology, materials and metallurgy, engineering and chemistry. In 2020 the government of Russia has merged it with VEB.RF. As of 2017 100% shares of Rusnano were owned by the Russian government. In 2015 Rusnano had 16 investment projects. It invested into about 97 plants and R&D companies in 37 regions of Russia. In 2016 many such enterprises were either dissolved, bankrupted or repurposed (see. below). In 2016 the company was on the verge of bankruptcy significantly Devaluation, devaluating below the Equity (finance), equity levels but managed to recover. In November 2021 trade of company's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunya Smirnova
Avdotya (Dunya) Smirnova (; born 29 June 1969) is a Russian screenwriter, film director, producer, TV host and literary critic, winner of numerous awards and accolades, founder of the charity foundation . Biography Early years and family Avdotya Smirnova was born to actors Natalya Rudnaya and Andrei Smirnov. Her grandfather Sergey Smirnov was a Soviet writer and historian. Smirnova has been interested in cinema since childhood. When her father forbade her to enter Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, she went to MSU Philology Department. After three years she transferred to GITIS, but didn’t finish her studies. In 1987 and 1988, Smirnova worked at Mosfilm with Sergei Solovyov, in the meantime performing in punk-rock band Tupie and contributing to Urlait samizdat magazine. At age 20, Smirnova married Arkady Ippolitov and moved to Leningrad with him. In 1995, she was invited to Kommersant and emerged as a journalist, she contributed to Afisha, Vogue, Seans, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a Independent politician, political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with Liberalism in Russia, liberalism. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Russia, Butka, Ural Oblast (1923–1934), Ural Oblast. He would grow up in Kazan and Berezniki. He worked in construction after studying at the Ural State Technical University. After joining the Communist Party, he rose through its ranks, and in 1976, he became First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk Oblast committee. Yeltsin was initially a supporter of the ''perestroika'' reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticized the reforms as being too moderate and called for a transition to a Multi-party system, multi-party repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Yumashev
Valentin Borisovich Yumashev (; born 15 December 1957) is a Russian journalist, politician and businessman- developer, who is the son-in-law of former President Boris Yeltsin and a member of his inner circle. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He was Editor-in-Chief of Ogonyok from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, he was appointed adviser to President Boris Yeltsin for public relations. In March 1997, Yumashev succeeded Anatoly Chubais in the powerful position of the Chairman of the Presidential Executive Office. In December 1998, he was dismissed from that position. He now works in real estate development. Biography Valentin Yumashev was born 15 December 1957 in Perm. His family moved to the Moscow region when he was sixteen. He entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University but did not finish his studies. In 1976, he started working as a courier at the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. A ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Right Forces
The Union of Right Forces (URF). was a Russian liberal-conservative political public organization and former party, initially founded as an electoral bloc in 1999 and associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the "young reformers" of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, Sergey Kiriyenko and Yegor Gaidar. The party officially self-dissolved in 2008. Nikita Belykh was the party's last leader from 2005 to 2008. In 2011, the SPS was refounded by some of its former members as the Union of Right Forces Movement. In 2012, it was registered as a ''political public organization'', a type of Non-governmental organization, NGO. In Russia, participation in Elections in Russia, elections requires being accepted into the List of political parties in Russia, list of political parties controlled by the Ministry of Justice. Both the former SPS and the refounded SPS were accepted as a member of the International Democracy Union (IDU). Political party (1999–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Livshits
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Livshits (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Лившиц; 6 September 1946 – 25 April 2013), was a Russian politician and economist who served as the minister of finance and deputy prime minister of Russia from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the assistant to the president of Russia from 1994 to 1996. After politics, he served as the vice president of the holding company "Russian Aluminum" from 2001 until his death in 2013. Biography Aleksandr Livshits was born on 6 September 1946 in Berlin to the family of servicemen. His father, Yakov Lazarevich, born on 9 February 1914 in Yekaterinoslav (present-day Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...) was an army officer, historian, teacher, and had graduated from MIFLI, and was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zadornov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zadornov (born 4 May 1963) is a Russian economist, chairman of the management board of Otkritie FC Bank, President and chairman of the management board of VTB 24 in the years 2005–2017, government official, Russian Minister of Finance from 1997 to 1999, Russian State Duma Deputy, 1st – 4th Convocations. Recipient of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class and a Certificate of Honour from the Russian Government. Family and early life Mikhail Zadornov was born on 4 May 1963 in Moscow to a family of geologists and spent his early years with his parents in Kamchatka Oblast (in 1995, he was elected as this region's deputy to the Russian State Duma). Education In 1980, Zadornov graduated with honours (gold medal) from Secondary School No. 875 in Moscow. In 1984, Zadornov graduated with honours (“red diploma”) from Plekhanov Moscow Institute of People's Economy (currently known as Plekhanov Russian University of Economics). In 1988, after servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Yegorov
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Yegorov (; 3 May 1951 – 25 April 1997) was a Russian politician. He was the Governor of Krasnodar Kray in 1992-1994 and in 1996–1997, Minister for the Ethnic Affairs of the Russian Federation in 1994–1995 and the representative of the President of Russian Federation in Chechnya, the chief of the Russian presidential administration, 1995–1996. He had the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Yegorov also played an important role in the leadership of Yeltsin's reelection campaign. Biography Yegorov graduated from the Stavropol State Agrarian University, Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. He worked as an instructor of the district party committee, secretary of the state farm party committee, chairman of the collective farm, chairman of the Labinsky District executive committee. In 1990–1993 - First Deputy Chairman of the Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar Krai (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Staff Of The Presidential Executive Office (Russia)
The Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation () is the head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Presidential Executive Office. The position was created by Boris Yeltsin's decree in 1991. The Chief of Staff is appointed by the President and responsible for general management of presidential activity. The incumbent Chief of Staff is Anton Vaino, who assumed the position in August 2016. Responsibilities In accordance with the Regulations on Administration approved by Presidential Decree on April 6, 2004 (No. 490): * Represents management in the federal bodies of state power, bodies of state power of subjects and local authorities, as well as in Russian, international and foreign organizations; * Provides overall management of the heads of departments of administration and heads of other independent units of administration; * Allocate responsibilities to Deputy Chief of Staff; * Coordinates the activities of Presidential helpers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
