resignation letter
Alexei Kudrin announced on his Telegram channel that he is leaving the post of head of the Accounts Chamber. In the post, he wrote that he “made a relevant application” to President Putin “in due course”.
“In total, I worked in the public sector for about 25 years. Now I want to focus on big projects that are broadly related to the development of private initiatives but also have a significant impact on people,” Kudrin wrote.
The head of the Federation Council budget committee, Anatoly Artamonov, confirmed to RIA Novosti that the Federation Council has received the chairman’s offer to remove Kudrin from the post of head of the Accounts Chamber.
A source in the upper house of parliament also told the agency that the document will be discussed at a meeting on November 30. This information was confirmed by Elena Perminova, the first deputy chairman of the budget committee of the Federation Council.
Sergei Ryabukhin, deputy chairman of the budget committee of the Federation Council, told RIA Novosti that the senators will soon consult on candidates for the chairmanship of the Accounts Chamber and will propose them to the president by the end of the year.
Rumors about the transition to Yandex
On November 25, RBC reported, citing sources, that Alexei Kudrin had met with Russian President Vladimir Putin the previous night. According to the channel, they agreed that Kudrin will “move from the Account Room to Yandex.” At the meeting, it was also decided to share the company’s property.
“At Yandex, Kudrin will head a new management structure that will include the current management of Yandex,” the message said.
RBC sources also approved This information states that Kudrin plans to leave the Accounts Chamber a week after meeting with Putin. However, due to the contradictions in the legislation regarding the appointment of the head of the department, this process may take at least two weeks.
RBC said, “After voting on constitutional amendments in 2020, the authority to approve this position was transferred from the State Duma to the Federation Council, but no relevant changes were made to the law “On the Accounts Chamber”.
The article says that for the Russian assets of Yandex, a new legal entity will be created, in which Kudrin will have to buy a “certain position” and an option for 5% of the shares.
An RIA Novosti source said that Kudrin’s transition to Yandex should be completed before the end of this year.
At a briefing the same day, Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that he could not confirm or deny the fact of the meeting between the country’s president and the head of the Accounts Chamber.
On November 28, the head of the Federation Council budget committee, Anatoly Artamonov, told RIA Novosti that the upper house of parliament has not yet received a presentation from the president, but even then the senators are waiting to consider the issue of impeachment. Kudrin was sacked early Wednesday (November 30th).
According to Artamonov, his committee has not yet submitted new candidates to Putin for the head of the Accounts Chamber.
Nearly 25 years in public service
Aleksey Kudrin was born in 1960 in Dobele, Latvia, to a military family.
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Leningrad State University in 1983. In 1990, Kudrin began working in the executive authorities of Leningrad. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Economic Development Committee from November 1991 to 1992.
In 1992-1993 St. He headed the Main Finance Department of the St. Petersburg City Hall. He then worked as chairman, first deputy mayor and deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg City Hall’s Committee on Economy and Finance until 1996.
In 1996, Kudrin served as the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the head of the Main Control Directorate of the Head of State. And in 1997, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed him the First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. He headed this ministry in March 2004. In 2011, by decree of President Medvedev, he was dismissed from his post.
Kudrin became Head of the Accounts Chamber in 2018.
Source: Gazeta
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