Sergey Kiriyenko
Russian politician
Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko (né Izraitel; Russian: Серге́й Владиле́нович Кирие́нко; born 26 July 1962) is a Russian politician who has served as First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia since 5 October 2016. He previously served as the 30th Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin, and was head of the Rosatom nuclear energy company between 2005 and 2016. Kiriyenko was the youngest Prime Minister of Russia, taking the position at age 35. Ideologically a technocrat, he has played a leading role in the governance of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as in Russian electoral interference activities in Moldova and Hungary.
Early life
Sergei Kiriyenko's Jewish father, Vladilen Israitel, made his name as a doctor of philosophy. Sergei Kiriyenko was born in Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhaz ASSR, and grew up in Sochi, in southern Russia. He adopted the Ukrainian surname of his mother. After graduation from high school, Kiriyenko enrolled in the shipbuilding faculty at the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Water Transport Engineers Institute, where his divorced father taught.
Prime Minister of Russia (1998)
Kiriyenko was appointed acting Prime Minister after the dismissal of Viktor Chernomyrdin's Second Cabinet by President Boris Yeltsin on 23 March 1998. On 20 April, Kiriyenko met U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot and assured him that his government would continue the economic reform program.
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