Career notes: As tax minister, illegally levied a new alcohol excise tax, only to refund it two months later� Declared, this year, that tax havens are �detrimental to Russia�� In �93, officially in charge of the transfer of power from the elected government to the Yeltsin regime�

Minor League Notes: Graduated from Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute in 1980 with an �engineer-economist� major�