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Key policymakers

Biographies sourced from official sources, Russian oil & gas companies and print and online media.

Vladimir Putin – President of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in 1952. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1975 and began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer, stationed mainly in East Germany (1975-1989).

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he retired from the KGB with the rank of colonel, and returned to St Petersburg as a supporter of Anatoly Sobchak, a liberal politician. On the latter’s election as mayor of St Petersburg (1991), Putin became his head of external relations and first deputy mayor (1994). After Sobchak’s defeat in 1996, Putin resigned his post and moved to Moscow. In 1998, he was appointed deputy head of management in Boris Yeltsin’s presidential administration, in charge of the Kremlin's relations with regional governments. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed head of federal security, an arm of the former KGB, and head of Yeltsin’s Security Council. In August 1999, Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister, Sergey Stepashin, together with his cabinet, and promoted Putin in Stepashin’s place. In December 1999, Yeltsin resigned as president, appointing Putin acting president until official elections were held (in early 2000). He was re-elected in 2004.

After Dmitry Medvedev won the 2008 presidential elections, Putin was nominated to prime minister of the Russian Federation. He was re-elected as president in 2012.

Dmitry Medvedev – Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born in Leningrad in 1965, Dmitry Medvedev graduated from the Leningrad State University Law Department in 1987. He pursued a postgraduate degree at the same university and holds a PhD in law.

From 1990 to 1999, Medvedev served in various positions at Leningrad State University and was also an adviser to the chairman of the Leningrad City Committee. In 1999-2000, Medvedev served as deputy chief of staff of the presidential administration and in 2000 he was promoted to first deputy. He has also been chairman of Gazprom’s board of directors, intermittently, since 2000. Following Alexander Voloshin’s resignation in

October 2003, Medvedev was promoted to chief of staff of the presidential administration. In November 2005, he was appointed by President Putin as first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation.

In December 2007, at the end of his term, President Putin announced that Medvedev was his preferred successor. Medvedev won the presidential elections in March 2008 and consequently stepped down from Gazprom’s board. In 2012, he did not seek re-election as president of the Russian Federation, leaving the post open to Putin, and took the post of prime minister.

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Dmitry Kozak – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian

Federation

Dmitry Kozak was born in Moscow in 1958. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1985. From 1985 to 1989, Kozak worked as a prosecutor and a senior prosecutor. At the time, he headed the legal department of the Monolit-Kirovsky plant in St Petersburg. In 1990-1994, he held several positions in the administration of St Petersburg. In 1998 Kozak was the deputy governor of St Petersburg and chairman of the Law Committee of the St Petersburg Mayor's Secretariat. In 1999, he was elected a chairman of the board of directors of the International Investment Financial Union and in 1999-2000 he was appointed a chief of the Government Staff in the rank of Minister. In 2000-2004, Kozak held several senior positions in the President's Executive Office and the government. In 2004-2007 he was appointed a presidential plenipotentiary envoy in the Southern Federal District and in 2007-2008 held a position of the minister of regional development of the Russian Federation. Since 2008, Kozak has been a deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation. In May 2018, he was assigned to oversee the energy industry of Russia.

Anton Siluanov – Minister of Finance

Anton Siluanov was born in Moscow in 1963. He graduated from Moscow Finance

University in 1985.

From 1989 to 1992, Siluanov held several positions at the Ministry of Finance. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he stayed with the ministry, and in 1997 became head of the macroeconomic policy and banking department. In July 2003, Siluanov took the post of deputy minister of finance under Alexey Kudrin, his predecessor, in which he was responsible for macroeconomic policy and inter-budget relations. In May 2004, after a reorganisation at the ministry, Siluanov became head of the inter-budget relations department, returning to the post of deputy minister of finance in December 2005. At the same time, he was included in the ranks of the government commission responsible for the oil & gas sector’s strategy and development. In September 2011, then Prime Minister Putin appointed Siluanov as acting minister of finance, and in early 2012 the newly elected President Putin appointed Siluanov minister of finance in the new cabinet.

Alexander Novak – Minister of Energy, Transneft chairman

Alexander Novak was born in the Donetsk Region in 1971. In 1993 he graduated from the Norilsk Industrial University with a degree in economics and management in the metals industry, and in 2009 from Moscow State University with a degree in management.

From 1988 to 2000, Novak worked in a number of metallurgical companies in Norilsk. In 2000-2002 he was deputy head of finance and economic issues of the city of Norilsk. In 2002, he became deputy governor of the Krasnoyarsk Region and headed the Department of Financial Control. In September 2008 Novak became deputy finance minister. In May 2012 he was appointed minister of energy. Since August 2015 he has also served as Transneft’s chairman of the board.

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Maxim Oreshkin – Minister of Economic Development

Maxim Oreshkin was born in 1982 in Moscow. In 2004 he graduated from the Higher School of Economics with a MSc in Economics. In 2002-2006 he worked at the Central Bank of Russia before taking a series of positions in the banking sector, including as VTB’s chief Russia economist in 2012-2013.

In 2013, Oreshkin joined the Ministry of Finance and was appointed deputy finance minister in March 2015. In November 2016 he was appointed minister of economic development.

Dmitry Kobylkin – Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology

Dmitry Kobylkin was born in 1971 in Astrakhan. He graduated from the Ufa Oil Institute in 1993, specialising in mining engineering and geophysics. In 2003, he graduated from the occupational retraining institute at the Ural Academy of Public Administration specialising in State and Municipal Management.

Between 1993 and 1995, Kobylkin was involved in geophysical engineering and geology. In 1996-2001, he was the personnel director and the first deputy general director at Purneftegazgeologiya and from 2001 general director of Khacheineftegaz. In 2002-2010 Kobylkin held several positions in the government and administration of the Purovsky District. In May 2010, he was appointed the governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, which he held until being appointed a minister of natural resources and environment in May 2018.

Igor Artemyev – Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service

Igor Artemyev was born in 1961 in Leningrad. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1983 and remained in academia until 1990, when he was elected deputy of the Leningrad Council (Petrosoviet).

In 1994, Artemyev was elected to the legislative assembly of St Petersburg, and then in 1996 became first deputy prime minister of St Petersburg and chairman of the finance committee of the city administration. In 1999 Artemyev was elected to the State Duma, where he served as deputy chairman of the Yabloko party and deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Credit Institutions and Financial Markets.

In March 2004, he joined the new FAS, the successor institution to the Antimonopoly

Ministry, which was downgraded to a ‘service’ as part of large-scale administrative changes. In May 2008, Artemyev was reappointed to this position.

Andrei Belousov – presidential aide

Andrei Belousov was born in 1959 in Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the economics department of Moscow State University and received a PhD in 1988.

Belousov’s early career was focused on scientific research (until 2006), although since

1999 he was also an economics consultant to a number of Russian government agencies and prime ministers. In 2006, Belousov was appointed deputy minister of economic

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development (under German Gref). In 2008, he became head of the economics and finance department in the Russian prime minister’s office, a post that was then held by

Vladimir Putin. In 2012-2013 Belousov was the minister of economic development. He was appointed to his current position of presidential aide (economics) in June 2013. Belousov has held the position of Rosneft chairman of the board since in 2015-2017.

Evgueny Kiselev – Head of the Federal Agency of Subsoil Use (Rosnedra)

Evgeny Kiselev was born in 1961 in Belgorod. He graduated from the Sverdlov Mining

Institute with the degree in geology and engineering in 1983.

In 1983-1998 he worked as a field geologist. Between 1998 and 2012 Kiselev had several positions in the Ministry of Natural Resources as well as the Federal Agency of Subsoil Use (its subsidiary), and was appointed its deputy head in 2012. In September 2015 Kiselev was appointed acting head of the Federal Agency of Subsoil Use, a position that was officially confirmed in January 2016.

Svetlana Radionova – Head of the Federal Service for Nature

Management Supervision (Rosprirodnadzor)

Svetlana Radionova was born in Almaty in 1977. She graduated from the Saratov State Academy of Law Institute in 1999 and later received degrees of higher education from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in 2011 and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in 2012. In 1999-2008 Radionova worked as a prosecutor and a senior prosecutor. In 2008-2009 she joined the Investigative Committee of Russia. In 2010-2018, Radionova held a position of the deputy head of Rostechnadzor. Radionova became head of the Federal Service for Nature Management Supervision in 2018.

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