A year’s efforts of Leonid Melamed, right, in Rosnanotekh, will be just a launching pad for Anatoly Chubais.
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Chubais Delegated to Microcosm
Ex-CEO of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais starts today his career as the chief of state-run Rosnanotekh. Former CEO of Rosnanotekh Leonid Melamed learnt about the abrupt resignation in Kazakhstan, where he accompanied Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russia’s nanotechnology corporation Rosnanotekh went through upheaval September 23. Past afternoon, the Kremlin’s press service promulgated the president’s decree on appointing Anatoly Chubais to the office and on dismissing Leonid Melamed from it.
Stripped of the operating control over the corporation, which he headed for a bit longer than a year, Melamed will remain a member of Rosnanotekh Supervisory Board and of the RF government’s innovation commission. Rosnanotekh was established September 19, 2007; the key purpose of this state corporation is to fuel advance of nanotechnology business, including through financial support (its capital amounts to 132 billion ruble).
According to the sources, Chubais was offered Rosnanotekh far back in early July, during the meeting with Dmitry Medvedev. Chubais confirmed then he received “a very interesting career proposal” from the president but specified that he would decide on it in September, once he is back from vocation.
Chubais took vocation July 1, 2008, after the formal winding up of Russia’s energy giant RAO UES. The sources say the decision on Chubais appointment was made in early September. The tricky point was that the contract that Melamed signed in the fall of 2007 was without any time-limit.
The abrupt dismissal of Melamed apparently sprang the surprise for all parties involved. Chubais that returns from vocation only today commented on the appointment no sooner than in the evening. He said the mission and aims of the corporation were clear to him and that, by 2015, the sales of Russia’s nanotechnology product are to near the current turnover of energy companies of former RAO UES, which is close to a trillion ruble a year.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 23, 2008
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