Search for new Russian Post CEO under way, main candidate Rostec's Kulikov - paper
MOSCOW. Feb 2 (Interfax) - The Russian Ministry of Communications and Media has started the search for a new head of Russian Post to replace Dmitry Strashnov, the Kommersant newspaper said, quoting sources in the government and Presidential Administration.
According to their information, the new CEO of Russian Post could be Sergei Kulikov, director of the Electronic Cluster at State Corporation Rostec. His candidature was cleared by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Presidential Administration. Kulikov was supposedly nominated by the head of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino. Other accounts say that Communications and Media minister Nikolai Nikiforov was behind Kulikov's nomination.
One of the newspaper's sources has named Alexander Ustinov, an aide to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich; member of the Strategic Development Council Yevgeny Birger; and Deputy Head of the Communications and Media Ministry Mikhail Yevrayev among other candidates for the position of Russian Post CEO.
Strashnov, Yevrayev, who oversees Russian Post at the Communications Ministry and a Rostec representative did not respond to Interfax's questions regarding the replacement of the head of Russian Post.
"The new head will be faced with tasks that the current head didn't manage to resolve, in particular, the move to a business orientated management model, corporatization and privatization" of Russian Post, which is currently a federal state unitary enterprise, the Kommersant source said.