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Profile: Russian PM candidate Viktor Zubkov

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-13 01:13

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday nominated financial
intelligence chief Viktor Zubkov as candidate for prime minister, hours
after he dissolved the government at the request of Prime Minister
Mikhail Fradkov.

The following is a profile of the little-known chief of the anti-money
laundering force issued by the Itar-Tass news agency:

Zubkov was born on September 15, 1941 in the village of Arbat, the
Sverdlovsk Region. He has been married has a daughter.

1958 - started his first job in the city of Monchegorsk as a fitter at a
local mechanical and repairs plant and later moved to a job at a mine of
the Severonikel combine.

1965 - graduated from the economics department of the Leningrad State
University with a Candidate of Sciences Degree (Economics).

1967 to 1970 - deputy chief of a state-run farm in the Gatchina district
of the Leningrad Region.

1970-1982 - director of a pedigree cattle breeding farm in the Leningrad
Region.

1982-1985 - general director of the state-run farming association
Pervomaiskoye in the Leningrad Region.

1985-1986 - chief of the executive authority in the city of Priozersk.

1986-1987 - first secretary of the Communist Party Committee in the city
of Priozersk.

1987-1989 - deputy chief of the agriculture and food industry department
at the Leningrad Region Communist Party Committee.

1989-1991 - first deputy chief of the Leningrad Region Executive
Authority.

1991-1993 - first deputy chief of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office
external relations office.

1993-1998 - deputy chief of the tax service of the Russian Federation,
chief of the St. Petersburg Tax Inspectorate.

1998-1999 - chief of the St. Petersburg department of the Russian Tax
Ministry.

1999-2001 - deputy chief of the Russian Tax Minister.

2001 - first deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation.

2001-2004 - chief of a committee at the Russian anti-money laundering
service Rosfinmonitoring.

Since March 16, 2004 he has been chief of the anti-money laundering
service Rosfinmonitoring.

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