Chief of Finance and Economic Department of the RF Government Anton Drozdov will probably head the Pension Fund of Russia.
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Industrious Financier to Deal with Pensions
Chief of Finance and Economic Department of the RF Government Anton Drozdov will probably head the Pension Fund of Russia. The Health and Social Development Ministry has submitted the respective ruling to the government. The candidacy of industrious and non-conflict financier suits nearly everyone.
Quite a few sources with the cabinet said that Anton Drozdov, director at the RF Government’s Finance and Economic Department, is likely to take over the Pension Fund. His candidacy is the only one and it “has been approved at the level of Prime Minister Putin.”
But the appointment won’t happen in the nearest future. “I don’t think it will happen before the end of August. Mr Drozdov takes part in the budget elaboration and no one will recall him from this occupation,” one of the sources specified, adding that only Drozdov’s candidacy had been presented, i.e. there are no other candidates to the office.
“Anton Drozdov is a non-conflict man of expert knowledge. He suits the government, Vice Premier Alexei Kudrin, Health and Social Development Minister Tatiana Golikova,” a source with the government explained.
“Ex-chief of the Pension Fund, Mr Batanov, is a law officer, and any initiatives could have been hardly expected from him. Anton Drozdov that knows finances excellently is able to build up relations with federal budget, make proposals when discussing the pension reform. In competency, he matches Minister Golikova,” said Evgeny Gontmakher, head of the Social Policy Center at Russia’s Science Academy’s Economy Institute.
As usual, Drozdov couldn’t be reached for comment yesterday.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 17, 2008
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