Ruslan Khadzhismelovich Tsalikov (russian: Руслан Хаджисмелович Цаликов) is a Russian First Deputy

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and Order of Honour recipient.

Biography

Tsalikov was born on July 31, 1956 in Ordzhonikidze (now

Vladikavkaz Vladikavkaz (russian: Владикавка́з, , os, Дзæуджыхъæу, translit=Dzæwdžyqæw, ;), formerly known as Ordzhonikidze () and Dzaudzhikau (), is the capital city of the North Ossetia-Alania, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ru ...

North Ossetian ASSR The North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( os, Цӕгат Ирыстоны Автономон Советон Социалистон Республикӕ, Tsagât Ireštone Âvtonomon Šovêton Šotsiâlišton Rêšpublika; russian: ...

. He graduated from the

North Ossetian State University North Ossetian State University after K.L. Khetagurov (NOSU, russian: Северо-Осетинский государственный университет имени К. Л. Хетагурова, СОГУ; os, Хетӕгкаты Къоста� ...

which was named in honour of

Kosta Khetagurov Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagkaty ( Ossetian: Хетӕгкаты Леуаны фырт Къоста, – ) was a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature. He was also a talented paint ...

in 1978 and five years later got a degree from the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Between those years he was an intern researcher in the same place and from 1983 to 1987 was a lecturer on labour economics and the same year became a subdean of the Economics Faculty at the same university. From 1987 to 1989, he was

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' General Director, and from 1989 to 1990, worked at Control-and-Auditing Directorate as the Chief Controller. Tsalikov worked as Minister of Finance of North Ossetia for four years starting from 1990 and from 1994 till 2000 was the Chief of the Main Financial and Economic Administration under

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

. From 2000 to 2005, he worked for Ministry of Emergency Situations. He was promoted to the State Secretary by

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, a position which he held from 2005 to 2007. In 2010, he became a head of Ministry of Emergency Situations and then was invited as a guest on ''Special Correspondent'' on

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. From May to November 2012, he was the

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of the

Moscow Region Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

and starting from that date on, under

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, he was promoted to Deputy

of the

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. He was scheduled to become Acting Governor of Moscow Region. He was made Acting Governor of Moscow Region on 6 November 2012 and served until 8 November 2012, when he was replaced by current Governor Andrei Vorobyov.

References

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