Alexei Leonidowitsch Kudrin

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Alexei Leonidowitsch Kudrin ( Russian Алексей Леонидович Кудрин ; born  October 12, 1960 in Dobele , Latvian SSR ) is a Russian politician. From May 2000 to September 2011 he was Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Since June 2016 he has been on the Economic Council of the Russian President.

biography

Kudrin grew up as the son of a military man in Arkhangelsk , where he also finished school. He then moved to Leningrad , where he worked as a car mechanic , before studying economics at Leningrad University in 1978 . After graduating in 1983, he worked as a research assistant at an economic research institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In October 1990 he moved to the city administration of Leningrad (since 1991 again in Saint Petersburg), where he was active in the committee for economic reforms and later in the city's financial administration. From 1993 to 1996 he was Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg. Finally he moved to Moscow in the summer of 1996 , where he became deputy head of the presidential administration by decree of the then President Boris Yeltsin . From 1997 to 2000 he was first deputy finance minister with a few months' interruption (during which he was deputy chief executive of the energy supplier EES Rossii ) until he was appointed finance minister on May 18, 2000 by decree of the then newly elected President Vladimir Putin . Since 2002, Kudrin has also been an honorary professor at St. Petersburg University, where he studied.

Resignation as minister

On September 26, 2011, Kudrin was dismissed as finance minister. This dismissal was preceded by his declaration that he did not want to work under a Prime Minister Medvedev . In this context, Kudrin had criticized the planned increase in military spending, among other things. Medvedev then publicly asked Kudrin to resign and then dismissed him. Kudrin had previously been said to have ambitions for the office of Russian Prime Minister . After his dismissal, Anton Siluanov and Igor Shuvalov took over his official duties on a provisional basis . On December 16, 2011, Siluanov was officially named Kudrin's successor.

politics

During his time as a member of the Russian government , Kudrin was considered one of the liberal-minded ministers. While he was in office as Minister of Finance, he used the high level of government revenue, thanks to the rise in oil prices , to repay the government debt and to set up a stabilization fund in the event that government revenue would fall in the future. In this way, Russia's international financial reputation was largely restored after the state bankruptcy in 1998. In addition, a tax reform was carried out during his tenure at the end of 2000 and the income tax was reduced to the standard rate of 13 percent.

After the parliamentary elections in December 2011 , Kudrin announced in an interview that he wanted to help found a new party.

In June 2016 he became chairman of the working group of the President's Economic Council. It was determined that he could act as a counterbalance to the ideas of Sergei Glazyev and advance structural reform.

In May 2018 he became head of the Duma accounting commission. Previously called for democratization and the expansion of freedoms; a development of the country is not possible without space for political competition, transparency and predictability.

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trillions for the military: Moscow increases armaments spending  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RTHB , October 9, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.rbth.com  
  2. ↑ The first victim of Russian castling. In: nzz.ch. September 26, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Medvedev fires Finance Minister Kudrin after a dispute. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 16, 2014 (undated).
  4. ↑ de.rian.ru
  5. ↑ Michael Ludwig: A verbal whipping. In: FAZ.net . September 27, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  6. ↑ de.ria.ru
  7. ↑ Alexej Kudrin: Comeback with a signal effect , RBTH, June 15, 2016
  8. ↑ Three tasks for two years , Kommersant, March 21, 2018 (sic!)
personal data
SURNAME Kudrin, Alexei Leonidowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кудрин, Алексей Леонидович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician, finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobele