Kadochnikov appointed Russia's first deputy finance minister, Kurbanov deputy finance minister - order

MOSCOW. Nov 9 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Finance Minister Pavel Kadochnikov has been appointed First Deputy Finance Minister, replacing Irina Okladnikova, who has moved to the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff, with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin having signed the relative order.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov previously said that he had submitted Pavel Kadochnikov's candidacy for the post of First Deputy Finance Minister, noting that Kadochnikov would oversee budget and inter-budgetary relations in the new role.

Additionally, Kurban Kurbanov, previously director of the Department for Budget Policy in Labor and Social Protection, has been appointed as Deputy Finance Minister.

As Deputy Finance Minister, Kurbanov will oversee the Department for Budget Policy in the Social Sphere and Science, as well as the Department for Budget Policy in Labor and Social Protection. Additionally, he will coordinate the implementation of the Strategy for Improving Financial Literacy and Developing a Financial Culture through 2030.

Kadochnikov became Deputy Finance Minister in January 2020 responsible for the Department for Interbudgetary Relations, the Department for Budget Policy in the Social Sphere and Science, and the Department for Budget Policy in Labor and Social Protection.

Prior to joining the Finance Ministry, he was President of the Strategic Research Center, Vice-Rector for Research at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Economic Development Ministry, Executive Director of the APEC Study Center, and head of a research department at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy. Born in Krasnoyarsk, Kadochnikov is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and is a Doctor of Economics.

Kurbanov joined the Finance Ministry in 2010, starting in the Department for Budget Policy in the Social Sphere and Science. In 2019, he was appointed head of the Department for Budget Policy in Labor and Social Protection. He was born in Khasavyurt and is a graduate of the Finance Ministry's Academy of Budget and Treasury.