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Reinhard Mitschek

Mitschek graduated from the University of Vienna in 2000 with a Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.

Currently Mitschek is Head of International Pipeline Projects Division of OMV Gas International GmbH. OMV (Austria) is a shareholder in the Nabucco Gas Pipeline International, of which he is also Managing Director.

Mitschek started his career in 1984 as member, on behalf of OMV, of a bilateral working group OMV/SNAM (actually ENI) whose scope was the construction of the Trans Austrian Gasline Loop.
Since then, he has moved within the company holding different positions such as: Head of Gas Marketing Western Europe Department, Head of Gas Marketing Department, Head of Transport and Storage Department, Member of Construction Committee for West Austria Gasline and for Trans Austria Gasline, Shareholders Representative of BOG GmbH and of TAG GmbH.

Between 2000 and 2001 he was Managing Director of BOG GmbH and between 2001 and 2002 he was Managing Director of TAG GmbH.

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Aleksei Mordashov

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  Head of Severstal
  
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  64^th weathiest man in Forbes 2006
  
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  Self-made man (bought the steel-mill he worked for, became general director and built it into a conglomerate, acquiring automakers, coal companies, ports and transportation companies.)
  
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  2004: outbid U.S. Steel to buy bankrupt Rouge Industries for $285 million.
  
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  2005: Severstal bought 70% stake in Italian steel producer Lucchini.
  
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  Acquired the last private state-owned TV channel in Russia, Ren-TV, which attracted international attention when it canceled anchorwoman Olga Romanova's program after she criticized Russian authorities on air.
  
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  A leading proponent of Western-style management training, Mordashov is advocating for Russia's entry into the WTO.
  

http://www.forbes.com//lists/2006/10/QW68.html

Aleksei Murychev

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  Head of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia
  
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  Has led/participated in many international conferences on banking
  
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  Was all over the news in the fall saying how great deputy head of the Russian Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov was when he was gunned down
  

http://www.asros.ru/?pid=1001

http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/International/2006/9/51216/

Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin

On February 15, 2007, President Vladimir Putin announced that Naryshkin had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for external economic activity, focusing on collaboration with the Commonwealth of Independent States. Some analysts suggest that the Cabinet reshuffle indicates a primary role for Sergei Naryshkin. The role of balance-keeper seems to have been assigned to Naryshkin: someone who reconciles interests between the identified successor candidates and the Kremlin factions behind them. In the late Yeltsin era this role was played first by Sergei Stepashin, then by Vladimir Putin himself, who eventually became the president.

(b. October 27, 1954 in Leningrad, Soviet Union)

In 1978 he graduated from Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a degree in engineering. In the 1990s he also graduated from Petersburg International Management Institute with a degree in economics.
In 1982 he was appointed Deputy Vice-Rector of Leningrad Polytechnical Institute.
In the 1980s he served in the Soviet Embassy to Belgium. According to some sources, there he worked for KGB after he had been a fellow student of Vladimir Putin at a group of KGB High School. [1]
In 1992 - 1995 he worked in the Committee for Economy and Finance of Saint Petersburg Mayor Office.
In 1995 - 1997 he was the chief of the external investment department of Promstroybank.
In 1997 - 1998 he led the Investment Department of the Leningrad Oblast government.
In 1998 - 2004 he was the Chairman of the Committee for External Economic and International Relations of the government of Leningrad Oblast.
In February - March 2004 he was a deputy head of the economic department of the Russian presidential administration.
In March - September 2004 Naryshkin was a deputy chief of staff of the Russian government.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the board of directors of Sovkomflot and a deputy chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft.
Since August 31, 2004, Naryshkin has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Channel One of the Russian television.
Since September 13, 2004, he has been a Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government of Russia.
On February 15, 2007, President Vladimir Putin announced that Naryshkin had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for external economic activity, focusing on collaboration with the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir O. Potanin is the president and founder of Onexinbank,.With Mikhail Prokhorov, he built the large holding company Interros by winning over the corporate customers of two huge Soviet-era banks in 1992. Potanin and Prokhorov later took control of metals giant Norilsk Nickel and oil company Sidanco in controversial "loans-for-shares" auctions. Has variously served as a deputy prime minister of the economy and as partner to George Soros in telecom monopoly Svyazinvest. Recently stepped down from the day-to-day management of his business. Now spends much of his time and money on charities: Potanin supports students and athletes, donates to the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian, Saint-Petersburg State University, and the state TV channel Kultura. He is a trustee on two boards: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum.

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  President/founder of Interros
  
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  1983 – 1990: Worked in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade.
  
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  1992: Built large holding company Interros with Mikhail Prokhorov by winning over the corporate customers of two huge Soviet-era banks.
  
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  1992 – 1993: Vice-president and then President of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank «International Company for Finance and Investments» (MFK).
  
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  1993: Became President of the United Export Import Bank (UNEXIM BANK).
  
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  Potanin and Prokhorov later took control of metals giant Norilsk Nickel and oil company Sidanco in controversial "loans-for-shares" auctions.
  
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  August 14, 1996 to March 17, 1997: Appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Government.
  
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  Since May 1997: President of UNEXIM BANK.
  
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  Since May 26, 1998: Due to the reorganization of the «UNEXIM – MFK - Renaissance» Group, he holds the positions of the President and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the «Interros» Company.
  
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  Served as partner to George Soros in telecom monopoly Svyazinvest.
  
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  Mr. Potanin has been awarded the government’s memorial medal «850th Anniversary of Moscow».
  
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  Recently stepped down from the day-to-day management of his business. Now spends much of his time and money on charities:
  

http://www.forbes.com//lists/2006/10/KZ32.html

http://www.interros.ru/eng/about/direction/Potanin/

Vladimir Potanin Foundation: http://eng.fund.potanin.ru/

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Vladimir Potanin, import/export, heavy industry, media and banking.

The president and founder of Onexinbank, Vladimir O. Potanin was listed by Forbes' Magazine in 1998 as the richest of all the Russians with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion. Forbes' also selected him as one of the world's top ten smartest businessman. Born in 1961, Mr. Potanin attended the Moscow Institute for International Relations, an elite school for those headed for work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and the KGB.
Calling on his early career connections, Potanin managed to utilize the funds of Vneshekonombank, the foreign trade bank, to provide the capital in 1993 for his new start up Oneximbank -- in English, for United Export/Import Bank -- and became its president.
From August 1996 to March 1997 he served as First Deputy Prime, a post that meant that he was the number two man in the government but he left after criticism that he couldn't divorce his political from his business interests.
Mr. Potanin has become most notable however, for creating the country's largest industrial empire. Bundled under Interros, his original cooperative, Mr. Potanin has acquired control over twenty formerly state owned enterprises. Potanin's industrial enterprises now encompasses Norelsk Nikel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium; Svyazinvest, a telecommunications company; Sidanko oil and number of other industrial and metallurgical firms, including Perm Motors, Northwest Shipping, Magnitogorsk, the Gas automobile plant, various metallurgical plants. There are also a host of newspapers including Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda and the magazine Expert.