Putin satisfied the statement of businessman Vardanyan on leaving the Russian citizenship

Russian President Vladimir Putin satisfied the statement of businessman Ruben Vardanyan about the withdrawal from Russian citizenship. The corresponding decree is published on the official portal of legal information.

In November, the president of the unrecognized Nagoro-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) Araik Harutyunyan appointed businessman Ruben Vardanyan by the new Prime Minister.

The fact that Vardanyan will take the post of prime minister himself he told at the end of October. “In early November, I will officially take up the post of state minister of Artsakh and then I will set out our strategic goals and priority tasks that we have to solve, as well as inform about the first steps that we will take,” he wrote then.

Vardanyan is a former owner of the Troika Dialog investment company and the founder of Skolkovo. Last year, Forbes rated his fortune of one billion dollars, the businessman took the 116th line in the list of 200 richest people in Russia.

In early September, Vardanyan announced the decision to abandon Russian citizenship and move to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.