Gennady Melikiyan replaces murdered Andrey Kozlov at Central Bank
Published: 01 February, 2007, 07:28
Russia's Central Bank has announced its new First Deputy Chairman, Gennady Melikiyan, who replaces Andrey Kozlov, who was murdered in Moscow last September.
Mr Melikiyan is a former Labour Minister and Deputy Chairman of Sberbank. In April 2003, he headed Central Bank's credit inspection department.
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