1. Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko is a Russian politician who has served as First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia since 5 October 2016.
23 Facts About Sergey Kiriyenko
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Sergey Kiriyenko previously served as the 30th Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin, and was head of the Rosatom nuclear energy company between 2005 and 2016.
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Sergei Sergey Kiriyenko, son of a Jewish father, was born in Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhaz ASSR, and grew up in Sochi, in southern Russia.
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Sergey Kiriyenko was appointed Prime Minister after the dismissal of Viktor Chernomyrdin's Second Cabinet.
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Sergey Kiriyenko's appointment was assisted by Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, who later became a leading critic of and activist against Vladimir Putin's government.
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Sergey Kiriyenko's premiership was noted in hindsight for the appointment of Vladimir Putin as Director of the Federal Security Service, eventually leading to his accession to the presidency in 2000.
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Sergey Kiriyenko's cabinet defaulted the GKO-OFZ government bond coupons which led to devaluation of the Russian ruble and 1998 Russian financial crisis.
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The newspaper went on to claim that Sergey Kiriyenko had used some of the embezzled funds to purchase real estate in the United States.
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Together with Boris Nemtsov and Irina Hakamada and along with others, Sergey Kiriyenko formed the Union of Right Forces.
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Since 2000 Sergey Kiriyenko has held the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Sergey Kiriyenko was appointed to head Rosatom, the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, on 30 November 2005 by Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet during the second term of President Vladimir Putin.
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Sergey Kiriyenko was appointed by the same administration to chair the board of directors of the vertically integrated Atomenergoprom nuclear company in July 2007.
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Sergey Kiriyenko said on 18 September 2006 while in Vienna, that the reactor in the Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran should be operational by September 2007 and the plant itself will be active in November 2007.
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Sergey Kiriyenko advocated President Vladimir Putin's idea of creating an international system of uranium enrichment centers.
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Sergey Kiriyenko was replaced as General Director of Rosatom on 5 October 2016 by Alexey Likhachev, former Deputy Minister for Economic Development.
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In October 2016 Sergey Kiriyenko was appointed First Deputy Chief of Staff in Putin's administration.
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Sergey Kiriyenko spoke publicly about the need to work with Russian youth and their fondness for debauched hip-hop, most notably in response to the crackdown in late 2018.
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Sergey Kiriyenko has continued to influence Russian domestic policy since the invasion, including allegedly preventing the cancellation of the 2022 Russian gubernatorial elections.
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On 5 May 2022 it was reported that Sergey Kiriyenko visited the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, taking part in the unveiling of a statue of an old woman holding the Soviet flag.
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Sergey Kiriyenko said that "Babushka Anya is a symbol of the motherland for the entire" Russian world.
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In late 2022, Russian opposition politician Nikita Yuferev accused Sergey Kiriyenko of violating Russia's 2022 war censorship laws.
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In September 2024, the United States Justice Department asserted that Sergey Kiriyenko had created some 30 internet domains to spread Russian disinformation, including on Elon Musk's X which was formerly known as Twitter.
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Sergey Kiriyenko's son Vladimir was appointed CEO of VKontakte in December 2021, the influential Russian social network after the controversial takeover of VKontakte by companies affiliated with state-owned gas giant Gazprom, in what critics said was a sign of the Kremlin tightening its grip over the social media network.