; 12 January 1957 – 26 January 2021) was a Russian politician and diplomat. From May 2013 to May 2018, he was Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet. He was engaged in international cooperation of the Cabinet. He served as the First Deputy Head of the Russian Government Office from 2018 to 2021.

Life and career

Prikhodko was born in

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. He graduated from the

Moscow State Institute of International Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО), also known as MGIMO University) is an institute of ...

in 1980. After graduation, he was a diplomat at the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia. In the years 1986-1987 -

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, Third Secretary of the Office of European socialist countries Soviet Foreign Ministry. In 1992-1993 - Second Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of Russia in

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. In the period 1993-1997 - Head of Department, Deputy Director of the

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. On 9 April 1997 - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. On 14 September 1998 - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Since 2 February 1999 - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Head of the Russian President's foreign policy. On 26 March 2004 - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. On 21 May 2012 - First Deputy Head of the Government of the Russian Federation. On 9 May 2013 - Acting Head of the Government of the Russian Federation. From 22 May 2013 to 7 May 2018 he was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet. He last served as the First Deputy Head of the Russian Government Office. Prikhodko died on 26 January 2021 at the age of 64 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Allegations of corruption

In February 2018,

Alexei Navalny Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption act ...

published a video alleging that Prikhodko had been receiving various bribes from

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and dollar billionaire Oleg Deripaska, including prostitutes services as well as real estate valued at at least 1.5 billion rubles (some 25 million dollars). Prikhodko himself denied the allegations, accusing Navalny of "mixing the facts" about his "friend" Deripaska,

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and Paul Manafort, while also voicing his wish to have a talk with Navalny as a "man with a man". A day after the video was published the

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added the video to the

Federal List of Extremist Materials Federal List of Extremist Materials (russian: Федеральный список экстремистских материалов, ''Federal'nyy spisok ekstremistskikh matyerialov'') is a list of works that are banned in Russian Federation, prim ...

, thus making accessing the video illegal for all Russian citizens. In the video known as ''Fishgate'' (russian: «Рыбка-гейт»), Navalny explains the characters and setting for Nastya Rybka's book ''Who Wants to Seduce a Billionaire'' (): ''Ruslan Zolotov'' is Deripaska, ''Papa'' is Prikhodko, ''Vitya'' or ''Victor'' or ''V'' is Yevgeny Agarkov and the Rybka's book setting of Greenland is actually Norway. Rybka refers to Papa as Richelieu, or a Cardinal in the Kremlin who is the person actually responsible for Russia's foreign policy during the governments of

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 ...

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, and

Dmitri Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

References

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