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Quién es Mikhail Mishustin -- el próximo primer ministro de Rusia

By Duncan Mil

January 16, 2020 - Los legisladores rusos aprobaron el jueves el nombramiento de Mikhail Mishustin como nuevo primer ministro, un día después que el presidente Vladimir Putin inició una inesperada reestructuración de su círculo más cercano que podría mantenerlo en el poder bastante más allá del fin de su actual mandato en 2024.

He was handpicked by Putin to head the Russian Federal Tax Service in 2010, but Mishustin has never been considered a high-profile politician. Until now. So who exactly is Vladimir Putin’s pick to head the Russian government?

Putin nominated the 53-year-old to be the head of the Russian government after Dmitry Medvedev resigned on Wednesday.

Mishustin digitalized the Russian tax system, leading to a drop in tax evasion as well as bringing many smaller businesses into the formal economy.

Between 2014 and 2018, his Russian VAT reforms brought the tax gap between revenue due and revenue collected from about 20 per cent to just one per cent, according to Mishustin.

Despite his tax-focused career, Mishustin initially trained as an engineer, graduating from Moscow’s STANKIN Machine-Instrument Institute (currently Moscow State Technological University STANKIN) in 1989. He has a PhD in economics, according to his official biography.

Forbes Russia listed him as the 54th best-paid state official in 2015 with earnings of 183.31 million rubles (around $3 million; €2.7 million). His wife reported earnings of 47.709 million rubles in the same period.

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PUBLISHED: 16/01/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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