"Rosatom" instead of Kiriyenko headed Likhachev from the Ministry of Economic Development

Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday.

“To appoint Aleksey Evgenievich Likhachev as the general director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom,” the decree that comes into force from the date of its signing says.

Prior to this appointment, Likhachev served as the first deputy minister of economic development.

We will remind, earlier the predecessor of Likhachev Sergey Kiriyenko was appointed the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.