Anton Alikhanov | |
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Антон Алиханов | |
Governor of Kalinigrad Oblast (acting) | |
Assumed office 6 October 2016 |
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President | Vladimir Putin |
Prime Minister | Dimitry Medvedev |
Preceded by | Evgeny Zinichev |
Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Oblast (acting) | |
In office 30 July 2016 – 6 October 2016 |
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Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Oblast | |
In office 22 September 2015 – 30 July 2016 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Anton Andreevich Alikhanov 17 September 1986 Sukhumi, Soviet Union |
Anton Andreevich Alikhanov (Russian: Антон Андреевич Алиханов; born 17 September 1986), is a Russian statesman, candidate of economic sciences, and a lawyer. He is the current acting governor of the Kaliningrad Oblast since October 6, 2016. He is the youngest in modern Russian history the highest official of the subject of the Russian Federation.
Anton Alikhanov was born on September 17, 1986 in the city of Sukhumi of the Abkhaz ASSR in Georgia, to a Russian Cossack mother and Caucasus Greek father
According to media reports, his father Andrei Alikhanov was one of the founders of a large company Rosmysomoltorg (with a 20% stake) and is an old friend of the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and a candidate for the State Duma of the Seventh convocation,Oleg Mitvol. In the 1990s, Mikhail Babich, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Privolzhsky Federal District, worked with Anton's father.
He has two higher educations.
He graduated from the All-Russian State Tax Academy of the Ministry of Finance of Russia in the specialties of "finance and credit" and "jurisprudence".
In 2010, he worked in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2012, at the Plekhanov Russian Economic University in Moscow, he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences on the topic "Managing costs for the development of the organizational culture of the company" in the specialty "Economics and management of the national economy (management)" (supervisor - Doctor of Economics, Professor A Govorin).).
In 2013, he worked in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, where he served as Deputy Director of the Department of State Regulation of Foreign Trade Activities, then - Director.
On 14 August 2015, he became a member of the advisory council on industry at the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.