Gennady Melikiyan replaces murdered Andrey Kozlov at Central Bank

1 Feb, 2007 04:28 / Updated 18 years ago

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.