Igor Ivanovich Sechin

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Igor Ivanovich Sechin ( Russian И́горь Ива́нович Се́чин ; born  September 7, 1960 in Leningrad ) is a Russian politician and manager. Until 2008 he was a close advisor to President Vladimir Putin and deputy head of the presidential administration . Until May 21, 2012 he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation in Vladimir Putin's cabinet; He is currently the CEO of Rosneft , the Russian state oil company.

biography

He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) into a working class family. The parents worked in a steel mill. They divorced when Igor and his twin sister Irina were still students. In 1977 he graduated from secondary school with a focus on French and in the same year began studying Portuguese philology at Leningrad University . After graduating from university in 1982, he first studied for two years at the special high school of the KGB secret service , then from 1984 to 1986 he was an interpreter for a group of Soviet military advisers in Mozambique and Angola . From 1988 he worked as an employee in the foreign department of the Leningrad State University, from 1991 as Vladimir Putin's secretary in the Leningrad city administration. He worked there until 1996. In 1996 he moved with Putin to Moscow in the presidential administration under Boris Yeltsin . In August 1999 he was promoted to head of the Prime Minister's Secretariat. Since Putin took office in 2000 and until he switched to government on May 12, 2008, Sechin held the position of deputy chairman of the presidential administration, and since March 2004 he was also the presidential advisor.

In addition, according to media reports, Sechin is one of the initiators of the legal prosecution of the Yukos group, which began in 2003 , as he is considered an expert in oil exports in Russian government circles and even published a non-fiction book on the subject in 1998. Setschin's appointment as Rosneft CEO on July 27, 2004 is attributed to this fact . After a request from President Medvedev , Sechin resigned from this office in April 2011. As a result of the exchange of office between Putin and Medvedev, however, on May 22, 2012 - at the instigation of the new (old) President Putin and by decree of Prime Minister Medvedev - Sechin was again appointed chairman of the board of Rosneft. In addition, he was appointed secretary of the Presidential Commission for the Development of the Energy Sector, but in this function he has no authority over the ministers.

In the wake of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 , the US government imposed an entry ban and account freezes on Sechin (and several other men from the close vicinity of Putin).

With the help of two constructed court cases, Sechin and the Siloviki expanded state capitalism as well as the power of Rosneft when he sued the expropriated private owner of Bashneft and at the same time the Minister of Economics Ulyukayev was dismissed and arrested, who did not want to approve of the Sechin's practices. The state-run TASS wrote about the trial against Ulyukayev, which was widely regarded as fictitious, saying that Sechin would testify personally against Ulyukiev and “certainly have questions for everyone involved”, which the NZZ described as “a remarkable view of the role of a witness”.

Private

Sechin is married for the second time and has two children, including a daughter who has been married to the son of the former Russian Justice Minister Vladimir Ustinov since November 2003 .

Trivia

Because of his facial expression, with which he often expresses dissatisfaction, Sechin is also called Darth Vader in Russia . Especially in the economic sector, Sechin is considered the most powerful and influential man from Putin's inner circle of power. The political scientist Andrei Kolesnikov even assumes that Sechin has an enormous influence on Putin's decisions.

With an annual income of 50 million dollars, Sechin led the list of the business magazine "Forbes" in 2013 in the category of the highest paid Russian top entrepreneurs. But in the Forbes ranking of December 2016, Sechin landed in second place behind Gazprom boss Alexei Miller with an annual earnings of 13 million dollars .

Web links

Commons : Igor Ivanovich Sechin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chairman of the Board of Directors
  2. ↑ Игорь Степанов. Адъютант его превосходительства. - журнал «Собеседник», 27.03.2007 / copy of the article on the website "Compromat.ru"
  3. ↑ Margareta Mommsen , Angelika Nussberger : The Putin system. Directed democracy and political justice in Russia CHBeck, 2007, ISBN 3-406-54790-7 .
  4. ^ Ti. Kaiser and E. Steiner: Russian Vice Premier resigns at Rosneft , welt.de, April 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ RIA Novosti : Russia's ex-vice-premier Sechin appointed Rosneft chief executive , news from May 22, 2012.
  6. ↑ Russia News: Sechin does not get a power of attorney for the energy sector , news from July 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ FAZ.net: Has the Kremlin miscalculated?
  8. ↑ Condemned to treasure - ministers and presidential advisers have become decision-makers. New Study: Who Determines Russia's Strategic Course? , Novaya Gazeta, 23 August 2019
  9. ↑ NZZ , August 9, 2017, page 23
  10. ↑ badische-zeitung.de , Abroad , January 20, 2017, Stefan Scholl: Putin's shadow man (January 27, 2017)
  11. ↑ Eduard Steiner: The man they call Darth Vader in Russia. January 20, 2017, accessed on November 17, 2017 (German).
  12. ↑ Sputnik: "Forbes": Rosneft boss Sechin Russia's top earner in 2013. Accessed on November 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Игорь Сечин. Retrieved November 17, 2017 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Sechin, Igor Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Се́чин, И́горь Ива́нович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad