Vladimir Chernukhin

Vladimir Anatolyevich Chernukhin (Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Чернухин; born 31 December 1968 in Moscow) was the deputy minister of finance of the Russian Federation and Chairman of Vnesheconombank. Chernukhin has spent most of his life as a banker and businessman. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as a Deputy Minister of Finance in Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's government. Though UK media, specifically The Times and others tried to label Chernukhin as "putin crony", factually Chernukhin had fled to the UK after Vladimir Putin dismissed him in 2004 and he is known to be a loyalist to former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, who in 2005 became an opponent of Putin. He received British citizenship in 2011. rdf:langString