Mikhail Eduardovich Oseevsky (, born 30 November 1960) is a Russian

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, a member of

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party. From 2003 to 2012, he was the Vice-governor of

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and the Minister of Finance in the

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, appointed to these positions by then-governor,

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. From 2010 to 2012, he was also the Head of the Administration of the St. Petersburg Governor. On 6 January 2012, he was appointed Deputy- Minister of Economic Development of Russia.

Biography

Mikhail Oseevsky born in

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to Eduard Oseevskiy in November 1960. From March to April 1983, he worked in the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after Mikhail Kalinin. Until 1986, he was secretary of the

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committee of the faculty of electrical mechanics of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and was a senior engineer. From 1986 to 1993, he was an engineer in the "Elktrofizika" company. From 1993 to 1999, he was deputy director of the Stock Exchange in St. Petersburg and served as a member of the expert council of the Federal Securities Commission of

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. In September 1999, he was a Vice Chairman of the Board Council of the Industrial and Construction Bank (Промышленно-строительный банк) in Saint Petersburg. In November 2003, he was appointed as a Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg and became economic advisor of

. In the 2000s, he was involved with the city's economic development. In November 2005, he was chairman of the board of the company "Metrokum" and a director of VEB-Invest Bank. In June 2010, he was appointed as head of Administration of the governor of Saint Petersburg and was a founder of the National Competition of the most successful businessmen of Russia, held annually since 2010. In 2008, he traveled to

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and led a delegation of 160 people to sign a cooperation agreement between the Government of Saint Petersburg city and the

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municipality: this was the first cooperation agreement of its kind signed between a Russian city and an Israeli city. Since being appointed vice-governor of the city, he was one of the organizers of the

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. In June 2011, he was the chairman of the Coordination Committee for Preparing and Holding the

. On 23 August 2011, the United Russia party greeted him as a candidate for governor of Saint Petersburg city, along with Vadim Tyulpanov and

Georgy Poltavchenko Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko ( rus, Гео́ргий Серге́евич Полта́вченко, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ pɐlˈtaftɕɪnkə; born on 24 February 1953) is a Russian politician. He has the federal state c ...

, but the

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chose

as his favorite candidate. On 6 January 2012,

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appointed him as Deputy- Minister of Economic Development of Russia.

Sanctions

On 8 March 2022, Oseevsky was set on a list of sanctions by

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. He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

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Family

Mikhail is married with two sons.

References

External links

Short biography in RussianOseevskiy
In

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