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…