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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of Sergei Gorky by the new head of Vnesheconombank. Until this day, Gorkov was one of the leaders of Sberbank, and even previously worked with Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The resignation of Vladimir Dmitriev, who headed the VEB since 2004, was expected as part of the reform of this structure. Recently, due to the combination of the functions of a commercial bank and an agent of the federal government, the VEB asset management came out of hand, and huge monetary infusion was required to save bankruptcy. In 2015, 300 billion from the FNB and 27.5 billion from the profit of the Central Bank were already allocated to VEBU to increase the sufficiency of capital, but still the bank is on the verge of default for foreign exchange debts.

Moreover, the main complaint against Dmitriev was actually that he could not convey to the country's leadership information about the risks that carry out these or other orders, no one doubted his competence as a financier.

Some suggested that even German Gref could be appointed the head of the Web, the situation is so difficult there now. “But at the same time, it is clear that, of his own will, German Oscarovich would hardly have accepted such an offer - taking into account the fact that work in Vnesheconombank obviously loses to work as the first person of Sberbank. Still, VEB is a very problematic institution, and, in fact, the change of its head is largely argued by the fact that perhaps Dmitriev was too obedient to all the initiatives that were carried out to finance certain projects through the VEB. Obviously, this undermined the financial condition of the bank, ”said the head of operations in the Metalinvestbank ACB, President of the ACI Russia, Sergei Romanchuk, in a conversation with Polit.ru.

The chief economist of the Rus-Rating agency, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Anton Tabakh, in connection with the change of chairman of the Web, said “Polit.ru” that the “Government Program for the Bank’s recapitalization program and everything that is connected with it is more important than specific persons.” “Because the head of the Web still determines his activity, rather, according to government directives,” he explained.

“The experts of the“ Webologists ”may have any specific expectations. But it seems to me that decisions made at higher levels are more important, ”said Anton Tabakh.

At the same time, Sergey Gorkov is a very interesting figure. He is 47 years old, he was born on December 1, 1968 in the Orenburg region. In 1994, Gorkov graduated from the FSB Academy with a degree in law, then in 2002 - the Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy with a degree in Finance and Credit. RBC, citing a source close to VEB, writes that only a person with a “power” past could head the bank - Gorky is the only Gref deputy who has such a line in the resume.

Sergey Gorkov on the page of the Internet conference of students "Yukos-classes". Source: School-sector.relarn.ru

But after graduating from the FSB Academy, Gorkov went to work not at the authorities, but to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Immediately after the release, he worked as deputy chief, and then the head of the personnel department of Menatep Bank (until 1997), and then in the leadership posts of the personnel service in the oil companies Yukos and Yukos-Moscow (until 2005).

After leaving Yukos, Gorky was three years a member of the Board of Directors of the FESCO transport group, and in November 2008 he came to Sberbank after Herman Gref. At first, Gorkov headed the usual department of personnel policy. And in October 2010, he was introduced into the board and appointed deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, recently he oversaw the international operations of the bank - that is, in fact, the buying of assets in Europe, which was actively conducted before the imposition of sanctions.

Thus, Gorkov has not yet has the experience of the sole leadership of a large company, but he is well versed in the selection of personnel and the debt market of capital, which is important in the new post.