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Aleksandr Shokhin

Employment History

Vice-Prime Minister
Russian Federation; Chairman State Duma's Defense Committee; Deputy
State Duma's Defense Committee

Board Membership and Affiliations: Member
Russian Duma; Chairman Coordination Council of Unions of Entrepreneurs of Russia; Chairman of Trustees Renaissance Capital

Zakhar Smushkin

Zakhar Smushkin, currently chairman of the board of directors of Ilim Pulp Enterprise, is indebted to the forest wars for his entry into the forest industry complex as one of the most influential people in the business – those who are determining its development. As one of several partners and co-owners of Ilim Pulp, he had to coordinate the operations of the largest Russian forest industry holding under near-frontline conditions. And Zakhar Smushkhin won in a big way. Effectively defending the corporation from an attack by the country's most influential people and simultaneously expanding its business at rates far above the industry average is a task that only a handful of managers in Russia are capable of.

Born in Leningrad in 1962. Graduated from the Leningrad State Technological Institute of the Pulp-and-Paper Industry.

Following post-graduate studies, worked at a scientific research institute.

In 1992, together with a group of aspiring businessmen founded the forest industrial company Ilim Pulp. As its General Director, was involved in building Russia's largest vertically-integrated forest industry corporation.

In 2001 was elected Chairman of the Board of Ilim Pulp.

Zakhar Smushkin is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, serves on the Board of Trustees of the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute of Polymers, and is a member of the Presidium of the Confederation of Timber Industrialists of North-Western Russia. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Foundation of Early Music.

In 2003 Zakhar Smushkin was awarded an honorary doctorate by the St. Petersburg Forestry Engineering Academy.

Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration,

Aide to the President

Born on September 21, 1964, in the village of Solntsevo, Lipetsk region.
Vladislav Yuryevich SURKOV is a Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential administration and a top aide to Vladimir Putin. Vladislav Surkov is widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. He made a widely-discussed but secret speech "How Russia Should Fight International Conspiracies" to members of the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) economic forum [http://www.mosnews.com/interview/2005/07/12/surkov.shtml]. Surkov graduated from Moscow International University with a master's degree in economics. During the 1990s he held key managerial positions in top Russian banks such as Menatep (1991-1996) and Alfa (1996-1997). After a brief career as a director for public relations on the Russian television ORT channel (1998-1999) he was appointed deputy head of the Russian presidential administration in 1999. In March 2004, Surkov was appointed an aide to the president, with the official title of Deputy Chief of Staff. He is seen as the "Grey Cardinal", a behind the scenes actor with much influence. Surkov speaks English. He is married to Yulia Vishnevskaya, the sister of Anatoly Chubais's wife. Surkov and Vishnevskaya have one son.
His father was an ethnic Chechen and he spent the first five years of his life in Chechnya in Duba-yurt and Grozny. Surkov's birth name is Aslambek, he was born in Shali.
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Studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and at the Institute of Culture, but did not graduate from any.Graduated in from the International University, master’s degree in economics.

1983-1985, served in the Soviet Army.

1990-1992, head of "Metapress" agency of market communications, president of the Russian Association of Advertisers

October 1992, vice-president of the Russian Association of Advertisers (according to the official version, Surkov's dismissal was the result of his participation in 2 structures that founded the Association)

January 1992 - May 1992, member of the Board of "MENATEP" MFO

May 1992 - September 1992, head of an advertising department at "MENATEP" MFO

September 1992 - December 1992, head of a department for work with clients at "MENATEP" AKIB NTP

December 1992 - March 1994, deputy head of the department for work with clients, head of the advertising section of MENATEP bank

March 1994 - April 1996, deputy head of MENATEP bank's public relations service

March 1996 - February 1997, vice-president, head of the department for relations with state organisations at the Closed-end Joint-Stock Company "Rosprom." Member of the Board of Directors of MENATEP bank. Member of the Board of the Mortgage Crediting Association

February 1997, first deputy chairman of "Alfa-Bank" Board

January 23, 1998, first deputy general director of the Closed-end (since February 1998, Open-end) Joint-Stock Company "Public Russian Television" (abbreviation in Russian - ORTV) in charge of public relations and contacts with mass media

April 2, 1998, approved of as a member of the Open Supervision Board at the Open-end Joint-Stock Company "Public Russian Television." Aid to the Head of Presidential Administration – Alexander Voloshin.

May 20, 1998, at the first meeting of the Council, elected First secretary of the Open Supervision Board at the Open-end Joint-Stock Company "Public Russian Television."

September1999, deputy head of the Russian Federation Presidential Administration. (Before that, he worked shortly in the Kremlin as an assistant of Head of President Administration.),was commissioned with supervising the work with the Russian Federation State Duma deputies

Since June 2000, monitored the strategically important Main Directorate of Domestic Policy and cooperation with the Duma, Federation Council, Central Election Commission, and the Constitutional Court. Surkov also handled ideological aspects of the work of the Presidential Administration.
Speaks English fluently.
Hobby: playing the guitar, writing music and short stories.
Married, with a son. Wife, Yulia Vishnevskaya, is a collector of dolls and founder of Russia's largest doll museum, as well as being the sister of the wife of Anatoly Chubais.
“In spite of the high degree of integration of the Western economies, French elite is considered as French, and German as German ... as long as the Russian ruling elite remains an offshore aristocracy, as long as it fails to understand that …it is a national bourgeoisie, we will have nothing good in this country. We will dangle in a critical gap. It is because of this gap that we have not yet succeeded in anything”
Contact Information

Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Staraya pl. 4, Moscow

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Vladislav Surkov is widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. Allegedly he contributed greatly to Vladimir Putin electoral victory in 2004 and was accused of media manipulation. He made a widely-discussed but secret speech "How Russia Should Fight International Conspiracies" to members of the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) economic forum. Surkov graduated from Moscow International University with a master's degree in economics. During the 1990s he held key managerial positions in top Russian banks such as Menatep (1991-1996) and Alfa (1996-1997). After a brief career as a director for public relations on the Russian television ORT channel (1998-1999) he was appointed deputy head of the Russian presidential administration in 1999. In March 2004, Surkov was appointed an aide to the president, with the official title of Deputy Chief of Staff. He is seen as the "Grey Cardinal", a behind the scenes actor with much influence.
Surkov speaks English. He is married to Yulia Vishnevskaya, the sister of Anatoly Chubais's wife. Surkov and Vishnevskaya have one son.
In June 2005 it became public for the first time after his interview was published in the German Der Spiegel magazine (original article: [1] ; Russian translations: [2] [3] ; English translation: [4]) that his father was an ethnic Chechen and he spent the first five years of his life in Chechnya in Duba-yurt and Grozny. Follow-up articles published in Russian newspapers ( [5] ) said that his father's name was Andarbek Dudayev (though not closely related to Dzhokhar Dudayev). Surkov's birth name is Aslambek, he was born in Shali. After his parents got divorced, his mother moved to Lipetsk and changed his name to the Russified version - Vladislav Surkov. His official biography still lists Surkov as name and Solntsevo village of Lipetsk province as birthplace.


Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, Aide to the President
Responsible for organizational and information and analytical support of the President’s activity on issues of domestic policy, federal and interethnic relations.
Coordinates the activity of independent departments of the Presidential Executive Office on issues of domestic policy.
Ensures coordinated activity between Presidential Aides and advisers on issues put under his jurisdiction by this order.
General supervisor of the Presidential Directorate for Domestic Policy.
Ensures interaction of the President and the Presidential Executive Office with the Federation Council, the State Duma, the Central Election Commission, political parties, public and religious organizations, and trade unions.
Ensures interaction of the Presidential Executive Office with federation subjects bodies of power, and bodies of local self-administration.
Together with the press attache of the President, ensures interaction of the Presidential Executive Office with the media, on the order of the President or the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.
Coordinates activity of advisory and consultative bodies under the President.
Disposes with funds in accordance with the budget of the Presidential Executive Office, and signs civil agreements on behalf of the Presidential Executive Office.
Coordinates activity of Presidential Plenipotentiary envoys in the Federation Council, the State Duma and the Constitutional Court.
Coordinates drafts of Presidential decisions on awarding state prizes of the Russian Federation and Presidential prizes for education, culture, literature and art.
Organises the activity of the Presidential Culture and Art Council, the Presidential Council for Interaction with Religious Organisations, and the Presidential Commission on State Prizes in Literature and Art.
Approves official regulations for federal state civil servants occupying civil service posts in the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate and the Presidential Directorate for Inter-regional and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries.
Surkov, Vladislav Yuryevich

Biography

Born on September 21, 1964, in the village of Solntsevo, Lipetsk region.
Education: International University, master’s degree in economics.
1983-1985: Served in the Soviet Army.
Mid-80s-early 90s: Ran a number of private organizations and enterprises.
1991-1996: Held senior positions at the Menatep Credit and Financial Enterprises Association, later called Menatep Bank.
1996-1997: Deputy head, then head of public relations at Rosprom (closed joint-stock company); first deputy council chairman of Commercial Innovation Bank Alfa Bank.
1998-1999: First deputy general director, director for public relations of Public Russian Television (ORT).
1999: Aide to the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.
Since August 1999: Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.
Since March 2004 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, and Aide to the President.

Alisher Usmanov

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  Forbes 278^th richest man
  
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  52 yrs. Old
  
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  1976, he graduated from University Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in the field of international law
  
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  1990 - 1994: First Deputy General Director of JSC "Intercross.
  
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  1994 – 1995: the Adviser to the Director of the Moscow Aircraft Production Association (cancer).
  
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  1995-1997: first Vice-Chairman of the Board Mapo-banka.
  
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  Nov. 2000 - July 2001: Adviser to the President of the JSC Gazprom.
  
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  CEO Gazprominvestholding and owner of Gallagher Holdings
  
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  Partner with Vasiliy Anisimov
  
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  Owner of Oskol Steel Mill, the Ural Steel industrial complex, and the Lebedinsky Iron Ore Mining and Processing Facility (through Gazprom)
  
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  Beginning of 2005: Acquired Mikhailovsky GOK, an ore mining and processing plant, in the
  
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  Spring 2005: Failed attempt to annex Russia's largest ferrous metals producer, Magnitogorsky metallurgical complex
  
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  Partners now say they will acquire enterprises in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
  

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/GIPI.html

http://www.rusnet.nl/encyclo/u/usmanov.shtml

http://www.gazprominvestholding.ru/

Semyon Vainshtok

Semyon Vainshtok, the clever and self-confident head of the pipeline group Transneft, manages Russia's giant oil distribution network. Vainshtok has managed the state-owned pipeline monopoly since 1999 -- he took up his position as head of Transneft under Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin. Vainshtok isn't regarded as a close confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he describes himself as Putin's "soldier" and he must be doing something right if he is still around. Some say the intelligence agency faction within the Kremlin would prefer to get rid of him and install their own man.

Semyon Mikhailovich Vainshtok was born in 1947 in the village of Klimauzy in Moldova. After studying at a technical college and an institute of building engineering, he continued his training at the University for the Gas and Oil Industry in the Siberian city of Tyumen. Rumor has it that he was a protégé of the late railways minister Nikolai Axjonenko and of oil billionaire Roman Abramovich
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458803,00.html

Viktor Vekselberg

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  44^th richest man
  
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  Self-made
  
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  1990: Became one of the founders and Chairman of the Board of the Russian-American investment group Renova. Renova invests primarily in the metals & mining, oil & petrochemical and banking industries.
  
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  1994: Renova orchestrated Russia's first successful hostile takeover of the Vladimir Tractor Factory.
  
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  1996: Bought medium-size aluminum smelters and bauxite mines and united them into Sual Holding, Russia's second-largest aluminum company.
  
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  April 2002: Appointed Chairman of Tyumen Oil Company (TNK)
  
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  Became Chairman of the Board of SUAL in January 2003. Before that, held the position of President.
  
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  2003: Made the bulk of his fortune when he and Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group took over TNK, which merged with BP in 2003
  
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  Currently Chief Operating Officer for TNK-BP.
  
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  Currently heads up a committee on international cooperation at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a group representing the interests of oligarchs and other big businessmen.
  

http://www.forbes.com//lists/2006/10/CGPE.html

http://www.sual.com/company/management/bod/1/

Vladimir Yakunin

Vladimir Yakunin, president of the state-owned Russian Railways company, met Putin in St Petersburg in the early 1990s. An engineer specializing in ballistic missiles, Yakunin headed the international department of a Leningrad physics institute, from where he was appointed in 1985 to the Soviet Union’s UN mission. Although his official biography does not mention intelligence work, this diplomatic posting and Yakunin’s close ties to key siloviki have invited speculation. In the mid-1990s, Yakunin headed a business association in St Petersburg and had a dacha near to Putin’s. After Putin’s election, Yakunin worked in the Transport Ministry, before managing Russian Railways. Among the silovarchs, he is one of the most ideological, calling for closer ties between the Slavic nations and a revival of Orthodox Christian values. He chairs the council of trustees of an organization called the Center for the National Glory of Russia, and has been dubbed by Russian journalists the “Orthodox Secret Policeman”. Current rumors suggest Putin may soon bring Yakunin into the government, and perhaps even considers him a possible successor. He has a dacha next to Putin’s… they’re buddies.

Vladimir Yevtushenkov

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  Chairman of the board of Sistema, the largest private sector consumer services company in Russia and the CIS
  
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  1975 - 1982: Worked as Deputy Director and Chief Engineer at the Karacharovo Plastics Works.
  
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  1982 – 1987: Chief Engineer and subsequently first Deputy General Director of the Polymerbyt Scientific and Production Association.
  
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  1987: Appointed head of the Technical Administration of the Moscow City Executive Committee
  
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  1988: Became head of the Central Administration on Science and Engineering of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
  
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  1990: Moved to chair the Moscow City Committee on Science and Engineering.
  
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  1993: formed Sistema.
  
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  1993-1995: President of Sistema
  
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  January 1994 - January 2005: Chairman of the Board of Sistema.
  
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  Mr. Evtushenkov is the majority shareholder of Sistema.
  
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  Since 2000: Member of the Bureau of the Board of Directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
  
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  2001: became head of the Union’s Committee on industrial policy.
  
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  Since 2002: Member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
  

http://www.sistema.com/section.html?s=111&id=15

Igor Zuzin

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  Since Dec. 2006: CEO/President of Mechel
  
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  2001: His company, Yuzhny Kuzbass, bought a controlling stake in the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant from Glencore. Out of these assets he created Mechel Group, which went public in 2004 on the NYSE.
  
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  Since March 2003: served as chairman of the board of directors of Mechel
  
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  Since 1999: Has been the chairman of the board of directors of Southern Kuzbass Coal Co.
  
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  ’97-’99: chairman of the board of directors of Mezhdurechensk coal co., which was merged into Southern Kuzbass Coal Co.
  
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  Member of board of directors of Kuzbass central processing plant
  
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  2005: Mechel paid $400 million for a 25% stake in coal mining company Yakutugol to make up for Mechel’s dearth of natural resources.
  

http://www.mechel.com/about/direction/directors_soviet/index.wbp

http://www.forbes.com//lists/2006/10/PYCI.html