Russian Dep PM Novak could replace Chernyshenko on Sberbank supervisory board

MOSCOW. Feb 14 (Interfax) - The Russian government has nominated Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and his deputy Vladimir Kolychev to represent it on the Sberbank supervisory board.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed an order on the matter.

Oreshkin, Siluanov, Kolychev and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko were candidates for the Sberbank board last year, so Novak could replace Chernyshenko this year.

Sberbank did not disclose board membership following last year's AGM.

Other candidates for the board last year were Sergei Shvetsov, chairman of the Moscow Exchange supervisory board, Sberbank head Herman Gref, Sberbank First Deputy CEO Alexander Vedyakhin, Professor Alexander Auzan, dean of the Economics Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Alevtina Chernikova, rector at the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Irina Shitkina, professor of the Entrepreneurial Law Department of the Law Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute President Mikhail Kovalchuk, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology President Alexander Kuleshov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology President Nikolai Kudryavtsev and former Central Bank First Deputy Governor Gennady Melikyan.

Sberbank's principal shareholder is the Russian government with 50% plus one share and 52.32% of voting rights.