Alexander Gennadievich Khloponin

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Alexander Chloponin (left) with Vladimir Putin

Alexander Gennadijewitsch Chloponin ( Russian Александр Геннадиевич Хлопонин ; born March 6, 1965 in Colombo , Sri Lanka ) is a Russian politician . He has been Vice Prime Minister of the Russian government since 2010, and was also Governor General of the North Caucasian Federal District until 2014 .

After graduating from the Faculty of International Economics at the Moscow Financial Institute in 1989, Khloponin worked for three years in the credit department of the Russian Vneschekonombank . After moving to MFK-Bank, he first became its vice-chairman and later president. In 1996 he took over the post of General Director and Chief Executive Officer of Norilsk Nickel . In 2001, Khloponin entered politics after being elected governor of Taimyr Autonomous Okrug . The following year, Khloponin became governor of Krasnoyarsk . In January 2010 he was appointed Vice Prime Minister and Governor General of the newly formed North Caucasian Federal District. The district includes Dagestan , Ingushetia , Kabardino-Balkaria , Karachay-Cherkessia , North Ossetia-Alania and Chechnya, and the Stavropol region . In May 2014, he was dismissed as the President's Plenipotentiary in the North Caucasus, but retained the post of Deputy Prime Minister.

In May 2018, Khloponin was dismissed from his post as Deputy Prime Minister by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin .

From 2003 to 2016 Khloponin sat on the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.

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Individual evidence

  1. Хлопонин Александр Геннадиевич. In: Ruspekh.ru. Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Russian).
  2. Руководство "Единой России" покинули Силуанов, Хлопонин и Ливанов. February 6, 2016, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Russian).