Fmr Russian Federal Customs Service top official Davydov becomes Eurasian Economic Commission's customs cooperation minister

MOSCOW. Sept 12 (Interfax) - The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has made a number of changes to its composition, the EEC says on its website.

Ruslan Davydov, recently relieved of his post as first deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS), has become the new EEC Minister for Customs Cooperation.

Davydov replaces Eldar Alisherov, representing Kyrgyzstan, who moved to the position of EEC Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics. Previously, this post was held by Sergei Glazyev. He has left the EEC, and his new place of work is not known.

Glazyev had been EEC Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics since the autumn of 2019, before which he was advisor to the Russian president.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at the start of this week released Davydov from the position of first deputy head of the Federal Customs Service.

Davydov has worked in customs since 2008, serving as advisor and chief advisor to the head of the FCS, and first deputy head of the main department for organization of customs processing and customs control.

He was appointed deputy head of the FCS in March 2012 and promoted to first deputy head of the service in February 2017. He served as interim FCS head from February 2023 to May 2024, until Valery Pikalev was appointed head of the service in May, and then went back to the position of first deputy head.