Vladimir Chernukhin
Vladimir Anatolyevich Chernukhin (; 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. Chernukhin 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. Career in Russia Chernukhin was born in Moscow on 31 December 1968 in Moscow. From 1986 to 1996, he worked at Tekhnopromimport, a trade house of the USSR and the Russian Federation devoted to the import of industrial machinery. During that period, he also obtained undergraduate degrees in Diplomacy and Economics from the Moscow Institute of International Economic Relations. From 1996 to 1999, Chernukhin worked as Deputy Head and the Head of the Credit Department of Vneshekonombank, a state owned commercial bank in the Russian Federation. On 1999, Chernukhin was appointed to the position of Deputy Chairman of Vneshekonombank. In 2000, then Prime Minister Mikhail