Viktor Khristenko (date of birth - August 28, 1957) is a famous statesman of Russia in recent decades. Previously, he held important positions in the government, today he is in charge of the central governing body of the EAEU.

An amazing family story

Where did Viktor Khristenko begin his life? His biography began in Chelyabinsk, but the family in which he was born has its own unique and noteworthy story. His father, Boris Nikolaevich, was born in Harbin, the capital of the Chinese Eastern Railway, in the family of a railway worker. In 1935, the family of Boris Khristenko (parents and two sons) returned to the USSR, along with tens of thousands of other Harbin residents who were employees of the CER. And then the very nightmare began, which was possible only in the country of victorious socialism. All Khristenko were arrested, the father of the family was immediately shot, his mother was tortured to death in the camps, and Boris's brother went mad in the NKVD prison. Boris himself survived a ten-year term in the camps and only after the war was he released. Already being a pensioner, Boris Khristenko, at the request of his son Viktor, described his life vicissitudes in which, although it was not published, it still had some circulation among the people with whom Viktor Khristenko communicated. She also fell into the hands of the famous screenwriter, who based on it wrote the script for the series "It All Started in Harbin." It is worth seeing, because everything that is shown in it is not just pure truth, but an almost documentary retelling of the real life story of Boris Khristenko (in the film, only his last name was changed).

Even more surprising is the fact that Viktor Khristenko's mother, Lyudmila Nikitichna, also comes from a family of repressed people: her father was shot, and she herself escaped arrest only because she was then only 14 years old. Such is the family history.

The beginning of the way

Could all these unusual circumstances not affect the fate of such a famous person in our country as Viktor Borisovich Khristenko? His biography, however, looks quite common for a Soviet person born in the late 50s. First a school, then the construction faculty of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute (by the way, his father, Boris Nikolaevich, was at that time an assistant professor of this university).

Upon completion of his studies, Viktor was assigned to his native university, worked as an engineer at the department, studied in absentia at the postgraduate course of the Moscow Institute of Management, then became a head manager, taught, and at the end of the 80s was already an assistant professor. So Viktor Khristenko would have continued his path in the footsteps of his father, but changes broke out in the country.

The beginning of the state career

In 1990, a young scientist Viktor Borisovich Khristenko ran for elections to the Chelyabinsk City Council and defeated his rivals. An educated and energetic specialist is rapidly moving up the career ladder, becomes a member of the presidium of the council, heads the commission on the development of a concept for the development of Chelyabinsk. However, the time of "councils" was already drawing to a close, and Viktor Khristenko moved to work in the executive body - the city executive committee, where he deals with the management of the city's property. After the collapse of the USSR, he was appointed deputy, then first deputy of the regional governor. He does not waste time, studies at the Academy of the National Economy of the Russian Federation. In political terms, he is an active supporter of Boris Yeltsin, heads the party "Our Home - Russia" in Chelyabinsk.

1996 year

Today, few people remember the events when the Russians were deciding who would become the president of the country - Yeltsin or Zyuganov. Khristenko Viktor Borisovich did everything in his power to get Chelyabinsk citizens to vote for the re-election of the current president for a second term. At the time, he was a confidant of Boris Yeltsin, actively spoke at rallies and meetings, campaigning for him. After the re-election of the president, Khristenko is appointed as his plenipotentiary representative in the region.

The beginning of a government career

In the summer of 1997, Khristenko moved to Moscow and held the post of Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation in the government. to Moscow from the provinces (from Nizhny Novgorod), offered his peer the post of deputy prime minister responsible for developing financial policy.

After the default in the Russian Federation and during the ensuing crisis, Khristenko headed the government for a couple of months as acting director. (so there is also a prime minister's position in his biography!) until Yevgeny Primakov came there.

All premieres need a good special

The new prime minister did not kick out the "valuable cadre" - he returned Khristenko to the post of deputy finance minister. Stepashin, who replaced Primakov eight months later, again offered him the post of First Deputy Prime Minister. Vladimir Putin, who soon sat down in the prime minister's chair, did not move him either. Kasyanov, who came after him, left Khristenko in the same position in which he was right up to March 2004, when the government was left without a prime minister for half a month. And again, even if only for a couple of weeks, but Viktor Khristenko becomes acting. Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - for the second time in his career.

The head of the government, Fradkov, moves Khristenko to the post of Minister of Energy and Industry, which the latter retains even under Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov until May 2008. The new head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin, leaves him in the same ministerial post.

Transition to work in supranational structures

At that time, the international cooperation of the Russian Federation with Belarus and Kazakhstan within the framework of the Customs Union was actively developing, and the creation of the EAEU was being prepared. Prime Minister Putin considered that Viktor Khristenko could be entrusted with the leadership of the executive body of the emerging community. In November 2011, he was elected chairman of the board of the EAEU Economic Commission, which is a kind of analogue of the European Commission. So the post held by Viktor Khristenko is approximately the same as that held by Zh.K. Juncker. His term of office expires in December this year.

Family of Viktor Khristenko

Back in his student years, he met a girl, his classmate Nadezhda, with whom he tied fate for two long decades. In this marriage, they had three children, a son and two daughters. But Viktor Khristenko, whose biography, family and life foundations seemed unshakable, at the age of 45, makes a new turn in his life. He divorces and enters into a new marriage in 2002 - with Tatyana Golikova, who was his comrade-in-arms in the Ministry of Finance for many years. In Putin's second government, she became the Minister of Health and Social Policy, and is now the head

Born on August 28, 1957 in Chelyabinsk. Father Boris Nikolayevich was repressed, spent 10 years in the camps - from 18 to 28 years of age (his mother and brother also visited there). After his release, he graduated from the Civil Engineering Institute, worked as a chief engineer at various enterprises, was the secretary of the party bureau of the department (the last position was an associate professor at the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute). Paternal grandfather, Nikolai Grigorievich Khristenko, worked as an engineer at the Chinese Eastern Railway and was shot in 1937. The maternal grandfather held the post of the head of the procurement office, was repressed for "sabotage". Mother, Lyudmila Nikitichna, was married to B.N. Khristenko for the second marriage, from the first marriage she has two children: Yuri and Nadezhda.
In 1979 he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute (CPI) with a degree in economics and organization of construction, in 1982-1983. completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow Institute of Management, then graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Economics (2002).
At the CPI he studied at the same department with Alexander Pochinok.
From 1979 to 1990 he worked as a computer engineer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering Economics, Head of the Business Games Laboratory, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering Economics at the Chelyabinsk State Technical University (ChSTU, the former Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute).
He was not a member of the CPSU. In 1979 he tried to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but was not accepted. According to Khristenko himself, there were two candidates for the seat, and his rival had a "dad in the district committee" (MK, 06.23.99, p.2.)
1990-1991 was a deputy of the Chelyabinsk City Council; was the chairman of the standing committee of the city council on the concept of city development, an advisor to the presidium of the city council.
In 1991 - Deputy Chairman of the City Executive Committee, Chairman of the Property Management Commission.
From 1991 to 1994, he held the post of Deputy Head of the Administration of the Chelyabinsk Region, Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Regional Administration. From 1994 to 1996 - First Deputy Head of the Administration of the Chelyabinsk Region.
Since 1994 - member of the Council for Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation.
On May 12, 1995 he was elected a member of the All-Russian Council of the VPD "Our Home - Russia" (NDR).
From 1996 until the transfer in the summer of 1997 to Moscow, he was the chairman of the Council of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the public institution "People's House".
In June-July 1996, he was a confidant of B. Yeltsin at the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, the head of the regional headquarters of the election campaign for the elections of Yeltsin to the President of the Russian Federation.
In September 1996, he was appointed chairman of the Chelyabinsk Region Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting.
In December 1996, he was a confidant and head of the election campaign of Vadim Solovyov in the election of the head of the Administration of the Chelyabinsk Region (Solovyov lost the election). After the elections, I worked as a consultant for three months.
On March 19, 1997, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Chelyabinsk Region.
April 19, 1997 at the IV Congress of the VPD PDR was approved as a member of the Political Council of the PDR.
In June 1997, he was relieved of his duties as a representative of the President in the Chelyabinsk Region "in connection with the transfer to another job."
On July 1, 1997, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Supervised issues of economy and control of federal funds, inter-budgetary relations between the Ministry of Finance and the regions, the activities of the Financial Gazette.
From August 1997 to May 1998 and from May 1999 to May 2002 - member of the Board of Directors (government representative) of OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK).
In September 1997, he took part in negotiations on the transit of early Caspian oil through the territory of Chechnya. On September 9, 1997, he signed an agreement between the Russian government and the leadership of Chechnya.
On September 26, 1997, he was elected vice-president of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the Chelyabinsk Region.
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 17, 1997, he was introduced to the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of the subjects of jurisdiction and powers between the federal bodies of state power and state bodies. authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Since February 1998 - member of the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation to ensure the delivery of goods to the regions of the Far North and equivalent areas.
In March 1998, he was recommended to the Board of Directors of OJSC KamAZ.
On April 28, 1998, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation in the reorganized Government of the Russian Federation.
Since April 1998 - Member of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Since May 1998, he was responsible for economic reforms, preparation and implementation of programs for the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, development of the financial, monetary and banking sectors; led in the Government of the Russian Federation strategic issues of state property management, privatization, the securities market, financial recovery and insolvency of enterprises. Ensured the interaction of financial, customs, tax authorities, currency and export control authorities in terms of ensuring the completeness of budget revenues. Responsible for issues of industrial policy, trade, economic security, concessional lending to the agro-industrial complex, external and internal debt, foreign loans.
He was also entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring interaction with international financial organizations (IMF, World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, etc.).
He also oversaw the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of federal and national relations, support for the socio-economic development of regions, the development of local self-government and inter-budgetary relations.
On May 15, 1998, he headed the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation for ensuring federal budget revenues, the Government Commission on financial and monetary policy, the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation for control over the provision of tax and customs benefits, the Interdepartmental Council on the formation and use of funds of a special fund for lending organizations of the agro-industrial complex on preferential terms.
On May 19, 1998, he was appointed RF manager at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency instead of A. Chubais.
On May 25, 1998, he headed a special commission under the Security Council of the Russian Federation for the settlement of the situation in the North Caucasus.
May 26, 1998 was approved by the deputy head of the Temporary Extraordinary Commission (VChK).
On May 25, 1998, he was included in the Council for Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation.
On June 24, 1998, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation on Operational Issues.
Since July 10, 1998 - member of the RF Government Commission on Economic Reform.
Since August 1998 - Chairman of the Working Group for the preparation of draft normative legal acts in the field of financial and budgetary relations of public authorities and local governments.
On August 23, 1998, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the government of Sergei Kiriyenko was dismissed. By the decree of August 25, 1998, he was appointed Acting Deputy Prime Minister before the formation of a new Cabinet of Ministers.
On September 28, 1998 he was dismissed.
On October 28, 1998, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Responsible for the development of the draft federal budget.
On November 30, 1998, by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Acting State Secretary - First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
On December 24, 1998, he was introduced to the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation for the protection of public health.
On December 30, 1998, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Coordination Council for Economic Issues of Regional Policy of the Russian Federation.
On May 10, 1999, by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was inducted into the collegium of state representatives in the Russian State Insurance Company OJSC.
On May 10, 1999, he was approved as a member of the board of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation.
On May 11, 1999, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was approved as a member of the government commission on science and innovation policy.
On May 21, 1999, at a meeting of shareholders, he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of MMK.
On May 28, 1999, the Interfax news agency, citing sources in the RF Ministry of Finance, reported that V. Khristenko had been appointed Acting Minister of Finance of the RF.
On May 31, 1999, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Supervised issues of macroeconomic policy. On the same day he was inducted into the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation.
On June 7, 1999, he became the first deputy head of the Economic Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.
On June 14, 1999, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
July 6, 1999 By the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was approved by the Chairman of the Commission for organizing the training of managerial personnel for organizing the national economy of the Russian Federation.
After the resignation of the Government S.Stepashinas on August 9, 1999 was acting. First Deputy Prime Minister. On August 19, 1999, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was again appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation in the cabinet of V. Putin.
On September 14, 1999, he was appointed manager from the Russian Federation at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency instead of Y. Maslyukov.
On September 21, 1999, he was appointed as Russia's manager at the IMF.
On September 23, 1999, on the basis of a proposal from the Government of the Russian Federation, he was elected Chairman of the ARCO Board of Directors by the Board of Directors of ARCO Group.
October 6, 1999 By the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation he was included in the Commission for control over the return to the federal budget of budgetary investment allocations and interest for their use.
Since January 2000, in the Chelyabinsk Region, he headed the headquarters of Vladimir Putin in preparation for the presidential elections.
January 4, 2000 was approved by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian part of the Mixed Russian-Ukrainian Commission for Cooperation.
On May 18, 2000, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation in the cabinet of Mikhail Kasyanov. Supervises the financial and economic block (Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of State Property, State Tax Service) and regional policy.
Since June 2000 - member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom.
In July 2000, he was approved as the chairman of the commission on the stabilization of the socio-political situation in Karachay-Cherkessia (instead of Nikolai Aksenenko).
On September 14, 2000, he was appointed Chairman of the Governmental Commission on CIS Issues.
In October 2000, he was appointed Chairman of the Government Commission of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the European Union.
On May 29, 2001, The Financial Times reported that the candidacy of Viktor Khristenko is being considered by officials in the Kremlin and a number of Gazprom managers for the leading candidate for the post of Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee instead of Rem Vyakhirev.
On June 29, 2001, he was elected to the Board of Directors of OAO AK Transneft.
In July 2001, he was included in the Integration Committee of the Eurasian Economic Community.
In December 2001, by order of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, he was appointed chairman of the government commission on reforming the electric power industry.
Since January 2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES).
In February 2002, after the removal from the post of Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov and the redistribution of responsibilities between members of the Cabinet of Ministers, Khristenko was assigned to oversee the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications.
In June 2002, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO AK "Transneft".
On November 10, 2002, he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Economics at the Academy of National Economy (ANKh) under the Government of the Russian Federation. Topic - "Theory and methodology of constructing mechanisms of budgetary federalism in the Russian Federation."
Since November 2002 - Member of the Board of Founders of the Ukrainian-Russian Gas Pipeline Consortium.
In July 2003, he was relieved of his duties as chairman:
- The Government Commission for Road Safety;
- Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Federal Target Program for the Economic and Social Development of the Far East and Transbaikalia for 1996-2005;
- Government Commission on Housing Policy;
- Government Commission on Transport Policy;
- Council of Heads of Local Self-Government Bodies on Social and Economic Reform under the Government of the Russian Federation.
On October 9, 2003, he became a member of the Board of Directors of RAO Russian Railways. On October 16, 2003, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Railways (RZD). (RIA Novosti, October 16, 2003).
On February 24, 2004, after the resignation of the Kasyanov Government, he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for a period until the formation of a new Government.

He expressed sympathy for the political activities of P. Stolypin, L. Erhard, M. Thatcher.
Hobbies - tennis, video and photography.
Fluent in English.
In January 2004, the publishing house "Delo" published the book "Rails. Pipes. Wires: Experience in managing infrastructure complexes: From the workbooks of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation VB Khristenko". A.P. Zinchenko is listed as the co-author of the book.

He met his first wife at the institute, got married in 1979. My wife worked in a representative office of one of the companies. Daughters Julia and Angelina, son Vladimir.
In 2003 he married the First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova.



ONLY IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA:

"It's a strange thing, in civilized countries, compromising information for politicians closes the road to power, in our country, on the contrary, it opens doors to any high offices, including those in the Kremlin."
"People say that a drinking mother is a family grief. And what can be said about the benefits for the country from the Prime Minister, who at any moment may be behind bars?"

VICTOR KHRISTENKO ...

After the presidential election, Viktor Khristenko is tipped for prime minister. Since Putin's acquaintances in St. Petersburg are entirely special services, and in cunning economic schemes, they are not boom-boom. By the way, this is a very convenient candidate for the Kremlin. If he does something wrong - dirt on the table, he will be obedient - the Chelyabinsk criminal case against the Private Investment Protection Fund will continue to gather dust in some safe.

Viktor Khristenko is already a long-liver in the Russian cabinet of ministers. Until the spring of 1998, however, no one had heard of the modest vice-governor of the Chelyabinsk region. Why exactly he was invited by the youngest Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko to the White House to oversee the entire huge financial bloc of the country is still a mystery. Maybe because they grew up together in the field of Komsomol commerce? Serezha Kirienko in the late 80s supervised the Nizhny Novgorod construction teams, and a graduate of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute Vitya Khristenko in his native Chelyabinsk organized the Komsomol NTTM system. Both learned the taste of easy cooperative money from an early age. We got together, worked together, found a common language.

But Kiriyenko has long been gone from the White House, and Khristenko continues to serve as deputy prime minister. Was the Komsomol businessman not so simple? What is the secret of its unsinkability?

Do you remember how it all started?

Remember the famous "book" scandal? This is when Yeltsin dismissed a whole cohort of young reformers, led by Anatoly Chubais, for receiving fabulous fees for unwritten books. Painfully, these fees resembled bribes for "correctly" conducted privatization tenders and auctions.

Who do you think advised Anatoly Chubais and a group of high-ranking co-authors to earn more than one hundred thousand dollars in the field of writing? According to our information, none other than an inconspicuous provincial official Viktor Khristenko suggested the idea of ​​this elegant income to the "Chicago boys".

By the way, before joining the White House, Khristenko managed to work at Ilyinka. He came into Chubais's field of vision at the suggestion of his mentor since the time of joint work in the administration of the Chelyabinsk region, and now the country's chief tax officer, Alexander Pochinok. It is said that Pochinok's financial well-being, which he proudly reported on all of his tax returns, was largely based on the energy of a businesslike assistant. Apparently, Chubais appreciated these qualities of Khristenko and took him to Moscow for the post of Deputy Minister of Finance. Apparently, at the same time Viktor Khristenko shared his "know-how" with Anatoly Borisovich.

The fact is that long before the "book" scandal in Moscow, a similar case occurred in the South Urals with the future Deputy Prime Minister Khristenko. Back in 1996, in Chelyabinsk, a thin - only 88 pages - brochure with a catchy title "In Search of Lost Deposits" was published in 10,000 copies.(see cover): a kind of guide for depositors who have lost their money during the active construction of financial pyramids. Under the nondescript cover there was no less nondescript content - a collection of government orders and decrees. Viktor Khristenko was proudly on the list of authors and compilers of this work. Two of his co-authors are also notorious people in Chelyabinsk - Andrey Dementyev (he headed the regional branch of the federal commission on the securities market, and then moved to Moscow and works in the Khristenko's office), and Oleg Khudyakov (the direct head of the Private Investment Protection Fund, who also followed Khristenko in Moscow).

Only it soon became clear that the regional Fund for the Protection of Private Investments had spent as much as 50 million budget rubles (non-denominated) on the publication of this miserable brochure. At the same time, it was printed in neighboring Yekaterinburg, by the private publishing company "SV", although the Chelyabinsk "prose writers" had their own House of Press close at hand. Apparently, the authors really did not want Chelyabinsk to learn about the details of the publication of this work, especially about fees.

By the way, according to the Foundation's charter, the budget for publishing the book had to be approved by the board of trustees, but the publishing decision was not made even by its board.

As we learned, the company SV received 36.5 million for publishing services (see doc. 1, doc. 2). Although, according to the prices of experts, perplexedly twirling this "fundamental" work in their hands, 20 million rubles could be spent on paper, printing and other printing works.Where did the rest of the state funds go?

The answer to this question could have been given by the compilers, but they were modestly silent. It is only known that the employees of the Foundation - from the chairman of the board to the typist - received a total of 7 million rubles of the prize "for the creation and publication of the book" (O. Khudyakov, for example, 5 million rubles). In addition, the defrauded depositors were offered to purchase a brochure at 2,000 rubles apiece. She was not in high demand, but sold out. And the 20 million rubles raised from the sale of the strange allowance never arrived at the Fund's cashier, and the brochure itself was not recorded as the Fund's property.

It turns out that the Kremlin "writers" who have fallen into disgrace are just pathetic plagiarists. It was not they who invented the method of earning money by "literary work", but the modest deputy head of the provincial administration. Perhaps, it was for this "clue" that he later received the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government.

The police were checking the activities of the Chelyabinsk Fund for the Protection of Private Investments, one of the founders of which was the administration of the Chelyabinsk Region represented by the same Viktor Khristenko. The operatives dealt with the "book" episode in detail. In addition, it turned out that the fund was fattening on budget money from the free: out of 670 million rubles allocated from the state treasury, citizens deceived by Mavrodi and other pyramid builders received half of the compensation as compensation. The rest of the money just disappeared. That, nevertheless, did not prevent Khristenko from safely moving to Moscow for a promotion, where for some reason he continues to feel invulnerable before the law to this day.

The ideal prime minister

Today Viktor Khristenko oversees in the government such tasty sectors of the real Russian economy as the fuel and energy complex and customs. Recently, he is reputed to be an implacable fighter for replenishing the state budget with petrodollars (it is the government commission on protective measures in foreign trade, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, who now determines the mechanism for calculating all export duties) and a threat to all Russian oil magnates.

But if Khristenko succeeds in opposing the oil lobbyists, then for some reason domestic sugar producers turned out to be dearer to his heart. Recently, sugar dealers have achieved a restriction on the import of raw sugar, since the Khristenko commission since 2001 decided to introduce a tariff quota for the import of this product in the amount of 3.5 million tons per year (last year, for example, they imported about 6.5 million tons ). And the customs duty on raw sugar supplied within the quota will be 5% of its customs value, above the quota - 30%, which is actually a prohibitive measure. Khristenko promised to sell the quotas at an auction.

The thought involuntarily creeps in, oil traders do not know anything about the "book" compromising material on Khristenko, therefore they are powerless to reduce their export duties, and domestic sugar refiners are aware of it, so they have amicable relations with the Deputy Prime Minister? And after the presidential elections, Viktor Khristenko is tipped for prime minister. Since Putin's acquaintances in St. Petersburg are entirely special services, and in cunning economic schemes, they are not boom-boom. By the way, this is a very convenient candidate for the Kremlin. If he does something wrong - dirt on the table, he will be obedient - the Chelyabinsk criminal case against the Private Investment Protection Fund will continue to gather dust in some safe. It's a strange thing, in civilized countries, compromising evidence for politicians closes the road to power, in our country, on the contrary, it opens doors to any high offices, including those in the Kremlin. People say that a drinking mother is a family grief. And what can be said about the benefits for the country from the Prime Minister, who at any moment may be behind bars?

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Childhood of Viktor Khristenko

The homeland of the politician is the city of Chelyabinsk. His mother got married after a failed first marriage, from which she left two children. Victor is her first child from her second marriage. The father was convicted and spent ten years in Stalin's camps. His paternal grandfather was shot at one time, and his maternal grandfather was convicted.

After graduating from school, Victor became a student at the Polytechnic Institute. After completing his studies, he received the specialty of an engineer-economist. As a fifth-year student, Victor wanted to join the party, but he was not accepted.

The beginning of the career of Viktor Khristenko

After receiving the diploma, the young man remained in graduate school. For a year he worked at the Department of Mechanical Engineering Economics as a computer engineer. Over the next ten years, the former student taught at his institute, rising to the position of head of the business games laboratory.

From 1990 to 1991, Khristenko was a member of the City Council. He became the head of the permanent commission, which dealt with the development of the city, was an adviser to the presidium of the city council, and in addition - the first deputy. chairman of the city committee on economics.

Work in the regional administration of the Chelyabinsk region

In 1991, the mayor of the city offered the future politician to become deputy chairman of the city executive committee and head the committee for managing city property.

Since 1994, Viktor Borisovich for two years was the deputy head of the regional administration, two years later he also headed the regional committee for property management.

In 1996, Khristenko became the head of the campaign headquarters during the presidential elections, was the representative of Boris Yeltsin in his area. His position was - against the communists. As Viktor Borisovich stated, he did not want the return of the old order. In his region, sixty-two percent was given for Yeltsin. He won a landslide victory.

Viktor Khristenko's work in the Government

Viktor Khristenko answers an uncomfortable question at SUSU (Chelyabinsk) 4.4.2013

Soon, on the recommendation of Anatoly Chubais, Viktor Borisovich was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in his native region. In this position, he worked for only four months.

At this time, he was elected a member of the Political Council of the NDR. And again, it was not without Chubais's recommendation, thanks to which Viktor Borisovich was appointed one of his deputies. So Khristenko began to work in the Ministry of Finance of Russia. During his work, he managed to show himself as a skillful regulator of cash flows from the center to the regions and vice versa.

Khristenko in the spring of 1998, at the invitation of Sergei Kiriyenko, entered his office, taking the post of Deputy Prime Minister. In the same 1998, he ended up in the Presidium of the Russian Government.

Together with A. Chubais and E. Gaidar, Viktor Borisovich took part in the development of the anti-crisis program, but it did not bring the results that were expected of her. After Kiriyenko's cabinet resigned, Khristenko did not enter the new cabinet.

Khristenko on Eurasian integration

In the fall of 1998, as the 1st Deputy Minister of Finance, he headed the development of the draft federal budget. In May 1999, Viktor Borisovich was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister. His responsibilities included overseeing macroeconomic and financial blocks. When V. Stepashin's cabinet resigned, he remained at his post, entering the office of V. Putin.

During the preparation of the presidential elections, Khristenko became the head of Vladimir Putin's headquarters in his native region. In the summer of 2000, he was appointed to the board of directors of OAO Gazprom. In Kasyanov's office, he became Deputy Prime Minister. In 2004, this cabinet resigned, following a presidential order.


When Mikhail Fradkov's cabinet was being formed, he entered it as the Minister of Industry and Energy. Since May 2008, Khristenko has been the Minister of Industry and Trade. Since December 2011, he has headed the EEC and will remain in this position for four years. Khristenko has been in the Government for over fifteen years and can be considered a long-liver.

Personal life of Viktor Khristenko

Viktor Borisovich first married during his student days. They met their future wife Nadezhda while at a dance in a small village in the Chelyabinsk region. Much later, the couple acquired a house in that village in memory of their first acquaintance.

The housing issue was very acute for almost eleven years of their life together. They lived in a three-room apartment with Viktor Borisovich's parents. Three of their children were born there. They have two girls and a boy. When the mayor of Chelyabinsk offered Khristenko to take the post of deputy chairman of the city executive committee, he agreed only on condition that the family would be helped to resolve the housing issue. Two months later, his family moved into a two-room apartment five of them.

In 2003, Viktor Borisovich remarried. Tatyana Golikova became his chosen one. The main hobby of Khristenko, which he carried through his whole life, is photography. He began to study it as a schoolboy.

The son of Viktor Borisovich, Vladimir, is engaged in the pharmaceutical business. He was married to Eva Lanskoy, with whom there was a divorce. The trial and proceedings were widely discussed in the media.

Tatyana Golikova was appointed Minister of Health and Social Development, and her husband Viktor Khristenko retained the post of Minister of Industry and Energy.

The fact that Khristenko and Golikova, who then held the post of Deputy Minister of Finance, became spouses, first became in 2003. Then "Komsomolskaya Pravda" told the quivering story of this beautiful love.

For the sake of Tatyana Golikova, Viktor Khristenko left his wife and three children (the youngest daughter is now 17). Most likely, the future spouses met in 1998, when Khristenko came to the Ministry of Finance.

The first marriage of the "queen of the budget" (as colleagues called Golikova for her phenomenal memory - she easily kept hundreds of numbers from the country's main financial document in her head) did not work out. Tatiana devoted herself entirely to work, earning as a result the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree.

Tatiana first spoke about the fact that her beloved man appeared in her life in November 2002, giving a frank interview to the magazine "Litsa".

I have been looking for this person all my life ... - said then Golikova, however, without naming the name of her beloved.

Golikova and Khristenko easily refuted the conventional thesis that it is impossible to achieve happiness in marriage if the spouses work together. Tatiana in the same interview noticed that at home they try not to talk about work. And if you still have to do this, then she listens carefully to her husband and learns a lot at these moments.

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School teachers of the Minister of Economic Development and Trade:

Elvira grew up an introverted girl

Another widely discussed appointment in the government is the new post of Elvira Nabiullina. Ufa countrymen are especially happy for her.

Elvira Nabiullina graduated from school in Ufa with only A's, and even with a medal. As teachers recall, she was always a very quiet girl, avoiding participation in amateur performances.

Quiet in the most ordinary working-class family - dad Sikhabzad Saitzadaevich worked as a driver at a motor depot, mom Zuleikha Khamatnurovna worked as a machine operator at a factory.

Right after school, Elvira entered Moscow State University and then made a dizzying career. Rising to her feet, she took her parents to her in Moscow.

Several years ago, the future minister received gratitude from Russian President Vladimir Putin for the work on his annual Address.

Prepared by Stanislav SHAKHOV, UFA.KP.RU

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Liberal Victory or Defeat?

The reshuffle in the Russian government has generated many different opinions in the Western press. As noted by most publications, the changes in the cabinet as a whole turned out to be less extensive than expected. However, assessments differ on the question: is it a defeat or a victory for the liberals?

Resignation of the head Ministry of Economic Development German Gref and the appointment to this post of his deputy Elvira Nabiullina The Financial Times also assesses positively and calls the new minister of the economic bloc "a liberal, aimed at market reforms and increasing economic efficiency."