Alexander Ivanovich Kazakov (russian: Александр Иванович Казаков; born 24 May 1948, Moscow) is a Russian politician and economist who held a number of senior government posts during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, including deputy chief of the

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and Deputy Prime Minister. He was among the officials in charge of overseeing the privatization of the Russian economy in the 1990s, being the head of the

State Property Committee The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) () is a subdivision of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development that manages Russia's federal state property. History The agency was formed by a presidential decree, No.314, ...

. Kazakov was also an associate of Anatoly Chubais.

Biography

Under the Soviet Union, Kazakov worked in Gosplan, the economic planning agency of the USSR, until 1992. During his service in the Russian government, Kazakov was deputy chairman of the property commission under Anatoly Chubais in 1993–1994 before becoming part of President Boris Yeltsin's administration as the head of the department working with regional bureaucracies.Zhigulsky, Anton (27 January 1996)
GKI Chief Kazakov 'A Chubais Man'
'' The Moscow Times''. Retrieved 6 September 2017. In January 1996, President Yeltsin appointed Kazakov to the post of chairman of the

and also one of the Deputy Chairmen of Government of the Russian Federation. In his new position, Kazakov was largely carrying out the policies favored by Chubais, being expected to continue them rather than make major changes. He also worked as an official at

Gazprom PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the larges ...

during the 1990s. Böhme (2011), p. 67

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