25 Facts About Mikhail Kasyanov

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004.

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In 2008, Kasyanov was a candidate in the election of President of Russia but in the middle of the campaign was denied participation on political grounds.

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Mikhail Kasyanov was born on 8 December 1957 in the settlement of Solntsevo near Moscow.

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Mikhail Kasyanov's father was a teacher of mathematics and the headmaster of a local school.

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Mikhail Kasyanov's mother was an economist, a head of a department of a governmental construction company.

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In 1974 Mikhail Kasyanov entered the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction University.

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In 1993 the Minister of Finance Boris Fyodorov invited Mikhail Kasyanov to join the Ministry.

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In 1996 Mikhail Kasyanov reached an agreement with the Paris Club and the London Club of creditors for a comprehensive restructuring of Soviet debts for a period of 25 years with a 7-year grace period.

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In 1996 Mikhail Kasyanov gave the road show of Russia's economy development prospects at various International finance centers.

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In June 1999, Minister Mikhail Kasyanov became a member of the Security Council of Russia.

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On 10 January 2000 Mikhail Kasyanov was appointed the first Vice Premier of the Russian government.

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An important achievement of Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet was the successful implementation of the small business encouragement policy.

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Mikhail Kasyanov was dismissed, along with the entire Russian cabinet, by President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2004 after more than three years in office, two weeks before the 2004 Russian presidential election on 14 March.

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Mikhail Kasyanov's bid was supported by Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky and Garry Kasparov.

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On 3 March 2007, Kasparov and Mikhail Kasyanov spoke against Putin's government to thousands of supporters at the Saint Petersburg Dissenters' March.

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At a presentation in International Institute for Strategic Studies 26 June 2006, Mikhail Kasyanov criticized Putin's administration.

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In June 2007 Mikhail Kasyanov was nominated by the PDU as a candidate for the presidential elections.

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In September 2007 the new political party People for Democracy and Justice was established on the basis of the PDU, and Mikhail Kasyanov was elected its chairman.

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Allegations that Mikhail Kasyanov took a two percent commission in exchange for ignoring bribes and illegal business ventures whilst he was working at the Ministry of Finance between 1993 and 1999 were made in the state-controlled Russian media which branded him as "Misha 2 percent".

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In 2006, Mikhail Kasyanov declared that he desired to establish a new political party and run for president in 2008.

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Mikhail Kasyanov left the opposition group The Other Russia in July 2007 due to the group's failure to agree on a single presidential candidate.

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Mikhail Kasyanov appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which rejected the appeal on 6 February 2008.

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In February 2016, Mikhail Kasyanov's image was posted online by Ramzan Kadyrov on his social media account, with Mikhail Kasyanov being in cross hairs of a sniper rifle.

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In May 2022, Mikhail Kasyanov participated in the 8th "Russia Forum" in Vilnius, together with Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil oligarch and former head of Russian oil and gas giant Yukos, the head of the US-think tank Freedom House, the head of the US-government funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe and others.

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In June 2022, Mikhail Kasyanov told Agence France-Presse that he had temporarily left Russia, without providing additional details.

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